apparatus for stowing and deploying a plurality of control surfaces of a guided air vehicle comprises : a housing including : a plurality of slotted openings along an outside surface thereof ; and a corresponding plurality of cavities within the housing , each cavity extending to the outside surface of the housing through the slotted opening corresponding thereto and configured to accommodate span wise stowage of a corresponding control surface of the plurality , and each cavity having a section including an angled ledge and side wall support surface to accommodate stowage of the corresponding control surface in a span wise canted position with respect to the corresponding slotted opening . a method of operating comprises the steps of : folding each control surface of the plurality edge wise through the corresponding slotted opening and into the corresponding cavity within the housing ; moving each folded control surface into a stowage section of the corresponding cavity to edge wise mis - align each folded control surface from the corresponding slotted opening ; moving each control surface in the corresponding cavity from the corresponding stowage section into edge wise alignment with the corresponding slotted opening ; and deploying each control surface edge wise aligned with the corresponding slotted opening from the cavity through the corresponding slotted opening to a deployed position .