I know one on the G reg that might be for sale. message me if u want the details.
Peter wrote:
I can’t understand how people can genuinely lose logbooks for a plane.
It’s pretty genuine when the owner has slowly faded from the scene and dies one day, or has Alzheimer’s, or is suddenly killed in an accident, and the logbooks are stored in a safe place that nobody else but the late owner knows. Not an uncommon situation.
My aircraft’s logs since Day 1 have a lot of entries by people now dead, but are stored in a cabinet in the same locked hangar as the plane, in doubled up waterproof bags. Never left with a mechanic. Secure enough… but not so secure that somebody wouldn’t find them when cleaning out the hangar.
Of course; what I meant was the owner who is selling you the plane, telling you he lost the logbooks.
For sure there are lots of people – some % in every country – who are basically not engaged with reality and managing their life, but none of them will be in GA.
A lot of lost logbooks were lost when a maintenance company went bust. That is a manifestation of the “European culture” where trust is vested in institutions rather than individuals, driving people to hand everything over to their maint company “to look after”. I think this happens especially in syndicates, where there is often no possible agreement on maintenance policy, where perhaps the past “leader” got fed up with the bickering, so everything gets handed to a company, so the members no longer get a chance to argue about it 
I am not sure what schools do; those I have known did also hand over everything.
