In total I received 5 kits: empennage, wings, fuselage, canopy/finishing, and undercarriage. The Wings came with an extra crate for the preassembled spars, and there were 2 tubes for the pushrods and stringers.
Each kit came with a packing list so the task was to make sure that everything that was supposed to be in the crates was indeed in there. It took me about 3 full days to get through it all. The fuselage was by far the hardest, followed by the wings. The undercarriage was trivial.
Overall, the contents matched the packing lists remarkably well. There were just a few small items missing. A few bags were shart an item. For example, I received 25 grommets when I was supposed to get 26 (see picture below). It pays to count carefully! However, there were around 20 or so bags with several hundred to thousands of rivets that I was not about to verify. Hopefully they give you a few extras…
I also received one part that was correct but labeled incorrectly, one part that was the left side instead of the right side, and one part that had two labels. I have yet to confirm if that last one is correct or not.
On a sour note, the packing of the fuselage kit left a lot to be desired. They put the heavy jig peices on top of the skins which caused some damage. The corners of some of the skins also damaged the skins underneath (see pictures). I’ve requested replacement parts and they are expensive so lets see Sling’s tolerance for such requests.
