Interesting timing on this topic...
Just last week a local pilot who sold his Cirrus last year started into discussions with an attorney who represents a divorced lady who won her Ex's Cirrus in the divorce..
Plane has been sitting for 6+ years here... Not in bad shape at all other the the dash/ sun shield is seriously faded and almost white in color..
The guy had pulled the pink slip out of the plane and claimed the log books are lost.
It has around 150 TT....
So, this guy approached my to use my motor skills to evaluate the motors condition.. Since the plane is out of annual and not pink slip is in it I consider it an experimental and checked to motor as close as I could.. The guy bought a real nice color boroscope with a lighted probe and I pulled the top plugs and looked VERY closely at the inside of the cylinders... Not a bit of rust anywhere,,, Compressions are real good, oil looks great with no metal visible..
Battery was dead so a deep charge restored it enough to light off the motor.. I was not there for that but was told it fired right up, not a hint of smoke, instant oil pressure, all EGT's looked perfect, CHT's were good, mags checked fine... I suggested he do a oil analysis on it after he warmed it up... I have not heard what the results were yet....
To determine value, the guy assembled a
"punch list" to show the attorney with current prices from shops that worked on his Cirrus he owned for several years.. He knows the in's and out's of Cirrus's so he is no dummy about this line of planes... I will try and recall the prices he told me the punch list consisted of.
1- Annual - 3,500.00
2- Reconstruct log books and recreate a new pink slip - 36,000.00
3-New tires and tubes - 720.00
4- New hoses - 4,700.00
5- Prop overhaul and reseal - 5,200.00
6- Static /pitot and transponder cert- 500.00
7- Repack chute and service rocket motor - 17,200.00
8- Service ripper lines the chute uses - 4,200.00
9- New Battery- 700.00
Not including other stuff found during the annual , he is figuring 73 grand to get her airworthy again....