Fearless Tower
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Ok, the latest question in my airplane buying saga is regarding dealing with previous un-approved repairs discovered on the pre-buy.
Pre-buy uncovered a couple previous un-approved repairs. Not too bad overall and mainly simple fixes - things like replace a few pop-rivets with cherry rivets....that sort of thing.
One, however is a little more involved - it appears that the right aileron inboard attach bracket was welded together at some point when it should be riveted. Sounds like the only way to correct this would be to cut it out and install a new riveted bracket, but I'm wondering how involved that would be? The guy who did the pre-buy said that while it was an un-approved repair, it looked like it was holding up well and not having issues.
Anyone ever dealt with correcting such a repair?
Pre-buy uncovered a couple previous un-approved repairs. Not too bad overall and mainly simple fixes - things like replace a few pop-rivets with cherry rivets....that sort of thing.
One, however is a little more involved - it appears that the right aileron inboard attach bracket was welded together at some point when it should be riveted. Sounds like the only way to correct this would be to cut it out and install a new riveted bracket, but I'm wondering how involved that would be? The guy who did the pre-buy said that while it was an un-approved repair, it looked like it was holding up well and not having issues.
Anyone ever dealt with correcting such a repair?