Yup, you're a bit late figuring that one out, or you're simply loaded and don't really care (good on ya in that case, but get a share in a PC-12, man!
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It's around twenty hours minimum for the inspection on an Archer. This figure alone doesn't tell you much, though, because depending on which state the machine is in when it goes into the workshop, and very much depending on how it's been used and by whom, the labour cost of fixing stuff could be a multiple of that, not to speak of parts.
Let me illustrate: I bought a well known Archer II, i.e. usage and maintenance history well known and documented, and my LAME spent 30 hours on a combined pre-purchase/100 hourly; we took the tanks out to check the wings properly for corrosion which adds a few extra hours, plus went at it without haste, so we could have probably done it in 20 if we had really wanted to, but I for one enjoyed the process enough to not sit there with a stop watch all the time, and I would allege you get better value out of the LAME that way too. (Quick tangent: The pre-purchase should be of the breadth and depth of a 100 hourly so you might just as well pay a few bucks more and get a clean fresh MR as part of the purchase. Not that hard to organise either. Knowing what work the machine will need of course helps greatly in negotiating the right purchase price. End tangent.)
With work to make the machine technically near perfect, the LAME spent another just over 40 hours (double the amount to include parts as a rough guide), plus just north of 30 hours for the avionics guys to bring up to speed various items that the previous owner that dropped the ball on. I did well, I think, I now have an aeroplane in technically very good condition for a combined purchase/fix-up price that is not above market value, I'd probably say around 20-30% below actually.
As I know that most things that needed fixing are done, I am pretty sure the next 100 hourlies will not throw up too many surprises (there are always some and stuff does break, these hulls are a few decades old), but once you know what you have you can pretty much budget and to a degree control costs going forward.
If you need more info, feel free to post or PM, I have done a fair bit of research into the cost of ownership of my Archer and am happy to share my knowledge.
Ah yeah, and while we're at it, I used to pay 65 bucks net for a good (small organisation) LAME down south, now in my new life in QLD I am paying 75 to a slightly larger organisation, are there people in SEQLD who run quality oriented small LAME shops with low overheads? Always happy to support a start-up or smaller independent operator!
