Chashint, Mine was 7 lbs exactly. Saito 72, standard futaba gear, fiberglass gear and the only other thing was that as I was building and reading the earlier posts of this thread lots of guys were complaining about their planes being tail heavy and having to add nose weight so I sanded the tail really good. And I use lots of glue on everything. I just finished an astro hog and it balanced without weight too but it seems really heavy and I haven't weighed it yet. Of course I'm sure it won't matter with that big wing. Once I clean up my shop I'm putting another Hog Bipe on the board to replace mine that I lost.