Grumman AA-5B Issues
There is a nice looking AA-5 on AFORS which I could get interested in. The price is very reasonable due to the ARC being due in June and the Annual in July.
My background is LAA / EASA Annex II so the EASA ARC system is alien to me.
My first question is what are the likely routine costs that will be incurred assuming nothing major is wrong with the 4,000 hour airframe and 1,500 hour O-360 engine?
Secondly, although I did half of my PPL on AA-5s I know nothing about their maintainability. So does anybody know what maintenance issues occur either routinely or exceptionally but regularly and are there any big no-nos to look out for?
Thirdly, what kind of maintenance establishment do I need to take it to as I'm assuming I can't get an engineer to do the work in a nicely heated and lit hangar provided by yours truly?