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IT'S GREAT BEING A PILOT, isn't it?
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Get your first plane!
Here, Ron Wanttaja walks you through the exciting process of shopping for, then acquiring and caring for your first airplane. Featuring lots of new information and photographs, this second edition includes the Light Sport category and Sports Pilot license, and emphasizes how to minimize cost of ownership for a wide range of planes. Aviation journalist Wanttaja, winner of the 1992 Aviation/Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence, guides you through every step -- before and after your purchase.
Expert guidance on:
- Prices and real-world operating expenses
- Cutting the costs of plane ownership
- Sizing up planes, from modern to antiques, used to partially completed homebuilts
- Privileges and limitations of the Light Sport Aircraft category
- Renting vs. owning; partnerships and leasebacks
- Pitfalls to avoid
- Preownership inspections--avoiding getting burned
- Paperwork needed to buy and register aircraft
- Getting financing and the right insurance
- Updated owner inspection and maintenance procedures--what you can and can't do, illustrated
With real ownership case histories for old and modern aircraft
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- Title Airplane Ownership
- Author Ron Wanttaja
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 315
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies, New York
- Date December 20, 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780071459747 / 007145974X
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 7.72 x 0.87 in (23.27 x 19.61 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Private planes - Purchasing, Private planes - Maintenance and repair
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005053521
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.133
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