I was watching and waiting for this model to hit the US shores and as soon as it did I naively asked Nitroplanes if it came with retracts in the kit. They did reply to me and told me it did not come with retracts, and was not retract ready. They did say, however, that they had a retract version of this plane planned, as well as several other planes that are not equipped with retracts but 'should be'.