Mike,

It sounds like they're sending out a new heli. I really donk't know what they do with the old broken helicopters. I think (this is an uneducated guess) refurbish them and send them out as replacements. Call them and ask them to look your heli over before shipping it. Otherwise, they'll just grab one off the shelf and ship it. You know how manufactures end up with B-Stock, their products with flaws? Maybe that's where they get these replacement helicopters from.

I noticed on the one they sent me the canopy was a bit scratched up and the tail boom was pink instead of purple, maybe from being out in the sun for too long.
CH,

My daughter is 8 and my son is 14.
I took my daughter to a doctor at the base, they had to file paper work with animal control. So I went to the vet to get a copy of Jake's shot records and then to animal control. They put Jake on a 10 day in-house quarantine. Good thing I took off this week. I can come home durning lunch next week and let him out to poop and pee. I was worried that I'd still loose him. I joked with the doctor saying I had to take Jake in to get some shots since I didn't want him catching any of my daughter's rabbies or anything like that. My daughter just about came unglued.
What's the point of having kids if you can't give them a complex.
Ted