RE: Dave, John Brodak and I have been telling You!
Let me get in on this conversation. Two years ago I sold a 1/3 scale J-3 to a man in Iceland. I didn't want to package it, so he came to my house in Sebring, FL and picked it up himself. Then he proceeded to Home Depot where he purchased material to crate it. The fuselage was about three inches longer than the max. box length allowed on an airplane, but Erik said "what's three inches"? He told me that in order to get it back to Iceland, he would classify it as "SPORTING EQUIPMENT". From FL, Erik and his friend Thor, then drove with the plane to Boston, MA where they got on an airplane non-stop to Iceland. I talked to them later, and they didn't have any problems. The key here was the word "sport" that allowed them access to ship. If they had classified the model as "hobby equipment", it would not have been allowed on the airplane.