With 4TV set to go into annual in a few weeks, I wanted to put together a list of MX to date, including work done in Indiana following the pre-buy, the prop overhaul, and fixing a few other things that have popped up. Here's the exhaustive list thus far:
The grand total thus far is $7,461. Since $3,000 was taken off the sales price to account for pre-buy items, that really equates to $4,461 in unexpected expenses - the biggest of which was of course the prop overhaul at around $2,600. That at least is an investment that provides some incrimental values since it reset the prop overhaul clock, however, giving more value to it. I did also forget to include the $600 deposit on my annual in this, but I'll add it to the overall annual expenses later.
Right now I have a mostly working airplane. The nose gear shimmy is now gone, but we're going to have the pins replaced during annual since they're old and need servicing. I'll need to replace the right side nav light since I found it INOP on my last flight. There will be somewhere south of two hours of labor to install the tailBeacon as well.
As for the annual, I have my fingers crossed that it comes in under $5K. The annual itself will cost $1,200 (including the deposit I made). I'm expecting the biggest item to be the install of a doubler where the seat rail attachment is due to cracking the A&P found when he poked around my plane when it arrived. He thought it was reasonable that the pre-buy A&P didn't see it since he knows to look for it given his work on the flight club's 152s. Not a safety issue, but something he said would keep it from passing his inspection. Estimating two days of labor for it, so about $2,000 is what I'm expecting.
Lots of upfront costs, and more than I expected ... but if I get out of this annual with no major issues that will ground the airplane, I'll consider that a win as it'll allow me to start looking at avionics and other upgrades.
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