My Sig STA is 13 years old and flies just fine. nchrome has pretty much given you the info I would have passed along and it HAS been 13 years since I built it. But if I were to say one thing about the kit it is: DON'T USE THE HINGEING SUPPLIED IN THE KIT!!! LOL, they will wear out and are brittle. I changed over to the Robar hinges which was a pain to do afterwards. I put flaps on mine and they really do work pretty well. The gear needs beefing which has been discussed and the wires are optional. I put the wires on and ran into a couple of problems. First, if you are going to put wires on, top and bottom, be sure to break the continuity between top and bottom, other wise you have created a loop antenna. Loops are very directional and will screw up your radio signal (voice of experience lol). Second, be very carefull in tensioning the wires as there are a lot of them and you can quite easily warp the wing.

The plane is easy to fly, I use Hi/lo on the elevators. I have found you nedd to go to Hi for take of and landing. The plane needs quite a bit of input at low speeds to get it to flare properly. As with any scale plane, don't get low and slow, keep a good angle on final to flare. This plane will snap at low speeds.

This model was designed about 30 years ago. It's a very good kit, but common sense can be used in updating stuff.

Here is my plane.

Bish