Genghis;
What was the aircraft condition like? Had it been torched or simply landed and abandoned?
ASI
Basically sound, but every indication was that they'd flown the pants off it for six weeks without doing a stitch of maintenance - it had become very scruffy very quickly. Despite doing an annual standard service before it was flown again, the owner had an engine failure a few weeks after he got it back, and after an engine rebuild just sold it at quite a big loss.
It had also been derigged at some point - you could tell because they'd refitted some of the wing pins the wrong way around.
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