My new toy, Cessna 182T

Over the past several months I’ve been shopping for around for a Cessna 182, checking several of them out on the web and in person. In February I was close to closing on a restored 1975 182T in Chicago that had just completed its annual. However when I had a prebuy done on the plane several days prior to the delivery date, I had to back out when the mechanic told me that he didn’t feel that the plane was flight worthy.

After this experience I obtained the services of Dave Evans who is a CFI based from Buckeye Flight Experience who assisted me in evaluating several Cessna’s that were on the market.

He located a clean 2005 182T that was being sold by Barron Thomas, one of the largest private aircraft brokers in the US.

This 182T had the Garmin 1000 glass panel, air conditioning (a nice perk when flying around Arizona in the summer) and had just over 1000 hours.
Last week we closed and I took delivery.

The following is a short video that was taken with Barron Thomas as a testimonial to both Barron and David for having the patience and fitting me into an aircraft that I feel will serve me for many years to come. Thanks Barron and Dave….

Now all I need to do is figure what radar detector to install