Rental aircraft and logs question

[fiveoboy01]

If I'm a renter, and want to see the logs for an aircraft that I have or want to rent, is that at the discretion of the FBO or is there a regulation that requires them to let me look at them? I'll guess the former. Thanks.

 

[Jim Logajan]

If I'm a renter, and want to see the logs for an aircraft that I have or want to rent, is that at the discretion of the FBO or is there a regulation that requires them to let me look at them? I'll guess the former. Thanks.

Very early in my training my CFI took me into the hangar with the filing cabinet containing the logs of all the airplanes I was likely to rent and showed me which drawer they were in. The FBO didn't seem to have any problem with renters coming in to review the maintenance logs any time they needed to. They were not to leave the hangar and you had to put them back of course.