Officially some things will appear as damage history when researching NTSB and FAA accidents records on your plane and some things won't. My plane had a nose wheel collapse with the attendant repairs to firewall and forward but it wasn't "officially" damage history and when I asked the question to the seller he could legally say that the plane had no damage history by definition. I found this out later. On the up side, when the plane was repaired they rebuilt the engine, repainted the entire plane and I most likely ended up with a prettier bird with a lower time engine than I would have been looking at if that student pilot hadn't landed her hard.
