As othere have said. The early cases were made by Cox in the late 70's/early 80's for the RC Bee and maybe one or two others. Then(in my understanding anyway) during the mid 90's they expermented again with a US manufacturer, but production costs were too expensive, ect. They made a relativly small production run of these in China( I believe from the same people they used with some of their plastic models over there) around 1996 or 1998.