Does any one of you ever assemble and fly a Seagull Arising Star ?
I need some comments because I’m planning to buy one, together with an
O.S. .46LA , as a second model after my Goldberg Freedom 20.

Vangmel, I had a Seagull Arising StAR and it was a good plane. I found the landing gear to be rather weak and eventually made it a tail dragger. That really made it a better plane. It is pretty easy to do. Sadly, one day while flying it the wing split in the middle joint. I might suggest being really thorough when gluing the wing halves and I would even carefully cut out the covering about 1/2 inch each side of the center join and laying down a piece of fiberglass cloth to reinforce it. Otherwise I think you'll be happy with the plane.

I have assembled one (or actually two...).

Main landing gear seems to be little on weak side. It seems that guys on factory have tried to solder those wires together with not-so-great success. Its quite entertaining to realise after touch-and-go that you have rectractable landing gear...

So you should solder those wire joints and also make little aluminium pieces to replace those bubble gum like things, which are supposed to keep landing gear with plane. (Retractable landing gear, mk II...)

Fuel tank should be also replaced with something better, like Kavan. I have got two of those original tanks broken.

Also I have broke two engine mounts. Seems to be little on weak side too.

Anyway, I think that its great flying plane, at least I have learnt to fly with it last summer. I have now almost straight wing in it (there's just something like centimeter dihedral) and it flies even better, imho.

I had two kits (as those are sooo cheap...) and after second tank ruptured, fuselage was so soaked with fuel I just put radios and engine to new one.