Just found this thread and it has cheered me up hugely. I'd been flying the same a/c (a 1965 IO-346 engined Beech Musketeer) for 35 years and encountered all of these sort of maintenance issues in miniature, as it were. Difference being that here in the UK the costs are many times higher. One year we spent £15K on the Annual, and the hull value was only £20K. That's after sourcing all the parts carefully, too. Anyway, in September this year one of my co-owners ran her into a hedge after losing control taxiing on a grass strip and that was that - not economical to repair so end of story. More power to your elbow, Adam. And just FYI, if you do get to bring the Commander to the UK (and I hope you do) the current cost of AVGAS is around $12 per US gallon.