by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Last July, first-time airplane buyer Chuck asked Savvy to manage a prebuy on a 1966 Beechcraft Musketeer. Chuck lives near Macon, Georgia, and the airplane was located in Ft. Pierce on the east coast of Florida. Normally, we encourage prospective buyers to let us...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
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...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
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...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
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...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
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...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
“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...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Kim is a successful engineer based in Silicon Valley, California, who had just purchased a Florida-based 2010 Cirrus SR22T. Kim arranged to have a professional ferry pilot fly the plane from Florida to San Antonio, Texas, where she planned to go through Cirrus...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Greg loved the Piper Comanche that he had owned and flown for the past 16 years. But now he was facing a costly engine major overhaul, and the avionics were in serious need of an upgrade. Greg used his aircraft for business and dispatch reliability was very important...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Elko Regional Airport (KEKO) is located in northeast Nevada at an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea level. The town has a population of 18,000 residents, and the airport has a small FBO (Mountain West Aviation) that offers attractive avgas prices. It’s pretty much in...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Wade had owned a variety of airplanes, including a couple of pressurized cabin-class twins. The plane he was now flying was a Cirrus SR22 Turbo, and he just loved it. He found the plane’s 200-knot cruise performance at altitude quite remarkable. It was as fast as his...
