yep. i dont know what wood they use (it's not balsa or ply) but whatever it is, it is heavy, weak, and warps like crazy. the models are really junk. when i told the guy that my cap 232 came out at 9 lbs he couldn't figure out why. after the crash (wing failure in a not very stressful spin) i niticed that most of the glue joints in the tail weren't even butted up against eachother, rather the gap was filled in with hot glue.[:'(].