Originally Posted by
ericferret
Also my experience.
Same here. It got to the point that I'd only do a pre-buy or conformity check for a select group of people as they filtered some of the BS ones out first. Unfortunately not all though. One of my favorites involved walking into the hangar and seeing a familiar N number. Figured someone had it reissued. However, about 30 minutes later walked back out with a previous logbook and told the prospective buyer it's junk and told the broker he could call the FSDO or I would. Long story short, he called and got the data tag pulled. Don't recall what happened to the owner. The logbook I found had my name it a number of times and was a M/R strike that ripped the roof off and was sold as salvage by the insurance company. Needless to say I wasn't too pleased of my name getting involved. Unfortunately as some here have mentioned, it's not always this convenient to find one.