RE: looking for my first Plane
Capone
Two suggestions. If you go to Google and enter the HAN part number for the Alpha 60, a list of stores that might have one will come up. You can then call around and see if you can find one. That's worked well for me in the past to find Hanger 9 products.
OR you might consider a Goldberg Protoge. It's an ARF carried by Tower, also 60-sized, and is easy to assemble and it flies just great.
Good luck