It stays on its floats most of the time and I've learned to tolerate the evolution 33 just enough to not replace it LOL. It is a PNP outfit with the hangar 9 floats. Heavy and leak like crazy :-(. The only thing I've had an issue with is I bounced the landing on floats and had to re glue rear lower fuselage crossmember as the original glue let go. Otherwise it's been very dependable and the Monocoat holds up great compared to foam in my opinion! I'm with you on the older stuff I buy anything I can from hangar 9 or great planes ARFs on eBay!