Purchasing & Evaluating Airplanes

Purchasing & Evaluating Airplanes is the most in-depth book on how to buy an airplane you will find anywhere. It describes the mandatory steps that you must take if you are to make a successful purchase. Most buyers have no idea what needs to be done from the very first moment they start thinking about ownership right through the very critical closing. Purchasing & Evaluating Airplanes explains those steps and guides you through the entire process.

If you believe that you can buy an airplane using the same techniques you use for an automobile you are going to be very disappointed with your purchase, yet every day that's what people do. The more knowledge you have when you enter the used aircraft market the better off you will be, and Purchasing & Evaluating Airplanes will supply you with the information, techniques, and procedures you need to know. This book is an easy read, and it is packed with solid information that is the result of 27 years experience in the aircraft market.

Brian M. Jacobson learned to fly in 1970 in a Cessna 150 and has amassed nearly 13,000 hours in general aviation aircraft since. Originally from New England he now lives in the Detroit, Michigan area where he is a full-time aircraft appraiser, a buyer's agent, and writer. Throughout the years he has flown all kinds of airplanes from light singles to jets, and enjoys sharing his experience with others who can benefit from them. "I was just plain lucky," Jacobson says of his first aircraft ownership experience. " I did everything I should not have done, but somehow I came out of it okay. I did not know how to buy an airplane back then, and I want to help others avoid the same mistakes." He and his wife own a 1975 Piper Arrow which they fly all over the country for business and pleasure.