We've had one for several years now and despite some rather shall we
say "authoritative" landings and a groundloop nothing's actually
broken on it. The ship is tied down outside April to October. The
paint has deteriorated quite a bit. Mostly it has just lost all its
gloss but in a few areas (on the skin joint on the wings at the
inboard edge of the airbrake box and at the wing root where the tape
is placed to seal the wing root/fuselage junction) it has started to
crack and peel off. As far as I can tell the LET aircraft are all made
of anodized aluminium. I have a brochure our club got at the time we
started shopping for the L33 which says you could choose either silver
or gold anodizing or a paint finish. Maybe we should have taken the
unpainted option. My familiy's business is paint, many of our
customers being in the aviation field, and I know that getting paint
to stick to anodized aluminium is not particularly easy. The first two
L23's we bought and all but one of our L13's had no paint on them
except for the stripes, fabric, and registration markings and their
finishes held up well. One of our L13's was painted years ago after a
hailstorm with a two part polyurethane by a very capable aircraft
painter and it still looks beautiful. The painter still says that
there was some luck involved in it working so well.

All in all a good ship. It looks a little ugly now but still flys
nice.