I have a set of the Horizon Hobby Hanger 9 .40 size floats on my Saratoga.






http://www.horizonhobby.com/products...40-arf-HAN4000 Flat bottom wings have lots of lift and you will be OK with those floats.

They work great but the covering is getting tired after five or six years of soakings and they are showing their age. I'm going to have to recover them or come up with an alternative. To the credit of the Saratoga I took off one day and it was flying poorly (trims were off and I was afraid I had lost one aileron servo), so I brought it back in and landed. The floats are sealed but I could hear water in it. At home I drilled a 3/8" hole in on end . . . and poured 12 oz of water into a measuring cup! With that sloshing front to back it's a miracle I got down in control.

I recommend you add an access draip and plug to the side without a servo access lid.


On my Mentor-G I put together a set of the foam core, ply undersides & fiberglass covered floats from Sea Plane Supply. These are VERY rugged yet light.
http://www.seaplanesupply.com/ I may strip the Horizon Hobby floats and cover with .75 oz fiberglass. Probably any future floats I buy for non-foam models will be this style. A good winter project. The aluminum struts are DuBro landing gear and the cross-braces are Lowes aluminum "L" stock.