From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of PETER WILLIAMS
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2013 8:43 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Does anyone have knowledge of IV-P N845CM?

HI THERE

About 18 months i tried to buy N845CM. the broker was Optisky, and in person Ken Gedney.

I believe that there is now a different broker trying to sell the aircraft.

it was owned by a Doctor (dermatologist ??) in Tulsa. he owned for at least six years. ultimately he went to a Cessna 421 because i believe he is over six feet tall and it was a tight fit in the Lancair.
he was instructed early on by Rudy Haug.


Ken Gedney was the broker. I met Ken when i bought a Cessna 210 as a backup airplane. at that time ken was listing N845CM at about $215K; i offered to trade my Cessna 340A for the Lancair. Ken said that he would not tender the offer to trade. He said to me "why should i? i have an exclusive and i sell the owner his insurance" i also offered $175k at that time.

in the course of the purchase of the Cessna it got a little unpleasant dealing with ken.

i mention that part because of the sale of N845CM.
the present owner paid about $175k, i do not know exactly but in that range. he is a 500 hour pilot and i do not believe that he has a lot (or any) complex time. Ken told this low time pilot that insurance would be no problem, easy. So this person bought the airplane, figuring that since insurance was easy/no problem, he would worry about it later.

the present owner then discovered that he could not get the insurance coverage he needed to fly the airplane; he contacted several LOBO instructors and was not able to get the training he would need to qualify for insurance.

i believe that he never flew that airplane and it may still be on the ramp at Optisky. WHERE you will find Ken Gedney

the only other thing that i know is that the air conditioner flows weakly, or did.

nothing i know about N845CM would indicate that it is a bad airplane, i just do not know

peter