I was a pilot and have personally known about situations such as these, in detail. It happens. They don’t rent airplanes, they buy them. Sellers usually don’t

I was a pilot and have personally known about situations such as these, in detail. It happens. They don’t rent airplanes, they buy them. Sellers usually don’t check licenses. They don’t get insurance. If you don’t get ramp checked (random FAA check of pilot) or crash, there’s no reason it will get checked.