To follow is a excerp from another thread I wrote about 6months ago. I know that the importer has changes and maybe the problem parts but this is what I found on mine.

Scotsman, I have a VQ Macchi 205, it was powered by a Rossi .40 with hobbico mechalical retracts and had just under 10hr flight time before I retired it. It was retired because:
- Plastic Wing fillets cracked so bad from vibration they had to be removed.
- Plastic retract seround departed in flight because it was so badly cracked from vibration.
- Plastic wing tips began to crack due to vibration, I filled them with two part foam. The cracking stopped then parts started coming off like it was stattered auto glass.
- Plastic head rest behind pilot started to crack.
- Cowel had cracked in meny places.
- Landing gear mounts each riped out once, I replaced them with marine ply. But when they ripped out they put large holes in the bottom of the wing. Patching required shelf paper or packing tape.
- Plastic oil cooler on bottom of wing cracked so bad it removed it's self in flight.
- Prone to flutter, caused by unanchored "Y" pushrod to elevator.

Mine sits in the burn bin awaiting sacrafice to the cloud gods. I normaly would pass it on to someone interested in warbirds in one of the clubs I belong to. But as the plastic parts started to fall off it started getting squerly, dropping wings, snapping. I don't know if this is because of the mostly missing wing tips or the wing has become very loose and can be bent almost any way I want to bend it. I'm almost tempted to remove the covering to see if it is the only thing that is holding the wing togeather. If I was pressed to rat it on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best) it would round up to 3.

If you have one do not use it with the "Y" pushrod provided without anchoring the elevator end of the pushrod to prevent it from moving left to right in the fuse and using your elevators as ailerons. With the plane assembled and setting on the wheels put your index finger under one of the elevators and lift quickly. Notice the other elevator goes down as the one you are lifting with goes up. This is caused by the pushrod moving left or right in the fuse as you put pressure on the one elevator. It also allows the elevators to form harmonics, which is what I figure happened to mine.