I am new to this but a friend of mine has the Apprentice and he loves it. It has also been a durable plane for him. He has really tested it "durability"  and with a little foam safe glue and clear packaging tape and all is well and he is in the air again. The nice thing is that if you buy the RTF version you have a complete radio system. You then can buy Plug and Play versions of planes and just move your receiver to the new plane or buy an new receiver and bind it to your radio.