I'll add to Grey Beards good advise. If you live, or are storing the planes anywhere near the ocean, pull the electronics and the engines and put them in a box under your bed. . The salt air will coorode the cables and circuits over time. Also, don't store them in an area where you will get wild swings in temp. IE in a garage that isn't heated in the winter, or gets to 110 in the humid summer. If you have a dry basement, hang the planes from the rafters with and old sheet over them. Make sure to check now and then for critters, mainly mice, who have decided the plane makes a nice condo.

I would also pull any and all foam and rubber bandsout of the plane, and pull the fuel tank and flush it with denatured acohol. I've aquired a few planes over that last four years that have been in "storage" for a few years, and some times longer. Rubber breaks down over time. One plane was a 33% Laser 2000 that had never flown. The foam used around the batteries and tanks was breaking down and crumbeling. I've seen it turn to an Oily Goo in other long term storage, not necessarly in a plane. The Laser had sat on a shelf and the light weight foam wheels had colapsed to the point they looked like your car with a fully flat tires. Those have to be replaced. Also, planes in long term storage have the fuel lines go bad, so pulling the tank and all the lines is a very good idea. If you don't before storage, make sure you do before trying to fly it again.I would say that 75%of the stored planes I'veaquired had the clunk line broken and the tank bungshrunk to the point of leaking. Any steel landing gears and pushrods, or other steel items, should have at least a coat of car wax on them to prevent them from rusting. Last, after a long storage, test the covering in an easilly patched spot for having gone brittle over time.

Last on the fuel. An unopened jug/can is good for several years if stored inside the house where it doesn't get to hot or to cold. An open jug will not last as long, Make sure you put the plastic plugsin before putting the cap backon. If you have a coupleopen containers,thatare both good, you may want to combine then into one full or fuller jug. Leave about thesame air space as a fresh from the store jug does and make sure ithas the plug and cap and it should store nearly as long as fresh fuel would.One of the guys at our field, who I head his advise on most things, recomends that for long term storage, fill the tank and then use a line between the pickup and vent toseal the tank. As long as air cant get in, there is little evaporation.Just remember to pull the vent line off first.

Don