Tyler- I asked the professor that handled our funding about our budget once. Her answer was don't ask. A lot of our team often buys hardware and electronics out of our own pockets, and we scrounge and beg for scraps of composites from the FutureTruck team on campus (One of their scraps is enough for our whole fuselage).

Last year we guestimated that each competition quality (all-carbon fibre) plane used close to 400 dollars worth of composites alone. Our practice planes used mostly fibreglass, so they are a lot cheaper. Add in a $150 OS engine, six decent quality servos, and all the wirering, connectors, and hardware and the plane we put up at competition probably cost more then 600 bucks.