I will try to make this as short as possible. I had one of AEROWORKS Extra 300 QB and powered it with a DLE-20. It crashed on its very first take off, with total destruction. Upon examination it was determined to be a total structural failure. The complete tail assembly, both vertical and horizontal stabs broke away from the fuselage. It appeared to either be poor design/weak fuselage and lack of or poor gluing practices by the factory.

I contacted AEROWORKS in regards to this failure. Mind you I was NOT looking for any type of refund or compensation as I only wanted to advise them of this failure. Well, needless to say, I received NO response from AW's. Nothing !! NADA !! ZIP !!!

Keep in mind that I will be 70 years old and building model airplanes since the age of 8. If that is not enough then I will add that I spent 4 years in the USAF , in aircraft maintenance. Still if that is not enough then I will add that I am a retired ATP " Airline Transport Pilot ". Thus, when I know when I see a structural failure !! Evidently AW's does not and refuses to fess up !!

Can only add that I would be very careful in what I purchase from AW's. Maybe just a tail wheel assembly would be fine.