I bought an AT-6 from bannahobby and it was a little under powered, but I upgraded to brushless with parts from Hobbycity.com for less than $30.00 including the esc, motor, prop and 3s lipo

and now she rocks!!!!! Very durable plane.
It's funny how people say "Chinese crap" when the "Brand name" stuff they are flying is made in "CHINA"[:@] I read about name brand planes, trucks and cars having issues all the time. There are whole threads on here about problems with "Name brand" stuff.
I will agree that most AM radios, no matter where they are made, don't have good range