by Mike Busch | Dec 7, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Did you know that today is the 117th anniversary of the first breakdown in aviation history? To mark the occasion we are announcing a $50 price reduction in our SavvyBreakdown service! On December 14th 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first attempt at powered...
by Mike Busch | Dec 7, 2023 | Savvy Stories
Dick loved his 1966 Mooney M20E. It was a magic carpet that let him and his wife travel all over the East Coast from their home base in North Carolina. Although the airplane was more than 50 years old, Dick had had it painted with a fancy new paint scheme, retrofitted...
by Mike Busch | Dec 6, 2023 | Savvy Stories
“I purchased this airplane a few months ago,” Mitch posted to his initial ticket after enrolling his 1969 Mooney M20C in the SavvyQA maintenance consulting program, “and took it to a maintenance shop this week for its annual inspection. This shop had just opened its...
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...
