@technoid I'm not that far ahead yet, but as far as I understand from my research it should be possible (maybe with some add-ons).
Just saw
@legoman 's reply, you should trust him more than me
EDIT: BTW, there's a great series of videos by
@geofanatec on how to use blender for planes, even if it's not complete yet I'm learning a lot from these videos:
This is to add to new tutorials being made but on the Blender side of things. Blender is a free program and can handle every aspect of the modeling process (even painting if desired). Please feel free to reference THIS THREAD for links and other such information that will be used throughout the...
forums.realflight.com
Hopefully he'll find some time to finish the series.