In Search of a Skylane

Will decided it was time to buy an airplane. A first-time buyer who lives a stone’s throw northwest of Chicago, he reached out to Savvy Aviation last March indicating that he’d found a 1998 Cessna 182S Skylane advertised online that caught his interest. This plane was...

A Troubling Report Card

Jack owns a 2016 Cirrus SR22 with a Garmin Perspective glass cockpit. (The Perspective is basically a G1000 on steroids.) His MFD records tons of data on an SD card—CHTs, EGTs, oil pressure and temperature, MAP, RPM, fuel flow, altitude, TAS, electrical bus voltages...

A Trio of AOGs

Savvy Aviation’s founder and CEO Mike Busch has been an aircraft owner for more than 50 years, and uses his airplane for serious business transportation, including many dozens of transcontinental missions and hundreds of shorter ones. He’s no stranger to the aircraft...

Looks Sweet, Tastes Sour

When Denver-based Theo first contacted Savvy about doing a prebuy, he identified himself as a first-time airplane buyer but said he knew exactly the aircraft he wanted to buy and was ready to make an offer. Theo was on a limited budget and had been looking at older...

Pull This Cylinder or Not?

“I had an oil sample analysis performed in March,” Jay posted on his newly-created SavvyQA ticket for his 1974 Cessna 172. “Aluminum, chromium, iron and silicon were all elevated compared to the previous sample. I flew another 17 hours and took another oil sample in...