Well Like I said I am going to take the plane back to the hobby shop and get the advice from the owner. He has something like 20 years with planes and is a fair guy.

Im sure he will steer me in the right direction.

As for the cracks, they are in the pictures, looks almost like a tear on each side right near where the landing gear mounts.

The former I was talking about is not all the way through, it also looks like a sliver of wood was torn off. At first look it appears to be a crack but after what was said earlier about being yanked off the die cut or whatever I looked closer and its not all the way through. Just looks like a piece was ripped off then glued back in.

Dbow