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Strange TB20 advert EC-ISR / G-BPTI

Europlanesales sales advert was clearly taken, some random pictures used from another TB20. Put on planecheck for a low price. Aim would be to get someone to place a deposit. You might indeed gather up plenty of deposits this way. Prob should be reported to Charles at Planecheck and removed if he sees fit.

Buying, Selling, Flying
EISG, Ireland

Which one?

Last Edited by ch.ess at 09 Sep 20:41
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EDM_, Germany

Now that you mention pictures, I was in Granada in spring and just went through my photos and I actually have a photo with the airplane in the background!

Switzerland

I downloaded the G-BPTI PDFs which are still on the above website. As previously stated the last service was in mid 2018, so basically they put the overhauled engine in and then more or less abandoned it for over a year.

The story behind this would be interesting. Such a lot of money spent, and then abandoned.

Re EC-ISR which obviously has a bogus description, a google on it shows no pics after 2009, which is itself strange. You can see it under S/N 325 here as of 2004. Then it popped up in Grenada in 2015. No other plane spotter pics showing up. OK; Spain is not packed with plane spotters

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Actually G-BPTI has been sold: http://www.europlanesales.com/planes-for-sale

Switzerland

EC-ISR has no IFD540 in the panel.

Could be a simple scam, but stupidity / illiteracy has never disqualified anyone from owning a plane and a 1984 TB20 is probably worth only 45k anyway. I have seen lots of them and most were extremely tired and long-neglected specimens.

The engine would be assumed buggered, after this period of inactivity.

G-BPTI is not going to fetch that price, by a long way. Look at the condition, the equipment…

Local copies of both ads:

planecheck_G_BPTI_42707_pdf
planecheck_EC_ISR_47374_pdf

The G-BPTI advert says 15hrs since “zero time overhaul” engine in July 2018. Almost certainly corroded by now.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

A_and_C wrote:

Scam ?

I’ll second that motion!

Buying, Selling, Flying
EISG, Ireland

The strangest thing are the G-BPTI registration in the teyt and the text blogs that are identical to another ad (for a more reasonably prized TB20: G-BPTI)

(Sorry, started a parallel thread in parallel)

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EDM_, Germany

There is a strange ad on planecheck for a TB20 at a far too low price

TB20 ad
The picture shows a plane with Spanish registration, but the text mentions G-BPTI.
Acc. to the text, the plane has not been used since March 2019, but G-BPTI can be seen used (or at least its TX code was in the air in UK)

At the same time there is G-BPTI for sale, here – at a more normal price ;-)
https://www.planecheck.com/?ent=da&id=42707

large textblocks identical
smells fishy

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EDM_, Germany

What does “engine calendar overhaul expired” “15 hours since overhaul” mean? One or ten years since overhaul?
Get a look at the logbooks. Shouldn’t be much to scan and email.
What was the total engine hours, and what was replaced at the overhaul.

Last Edited by Maoraigh at 08 Sep 21:04
Maoraigh
EGPE, United Kingdom
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