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Hello all, I just completed my H9 Saratoga with YS63s, took all of 4-5 hrs to fit out, flies perfectly offtarmac no vices highly recomended!

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Too bad that model is discontinued. I have one too, it flys good, a little hot on the landings.

I have flowen a Saratoga for two years both on and off the water...It is a wonderfull plane...The Hanger 9 floats need to be fiberglassed to be real worthwile floats because the covering comes off....The covering on the Saratoga does too.....I crashed my first saratoga and they are pretty flimsy....It just disintrgated...I liked it so much I bought another one....I find it to land slow and easy.... I have an OS 55 AX on mine and it is overpowered ..An OS 46 AX would be a better match...I really like the sholder wimg . I can not understand why it is discontinued...I guess it wasent selling ...

I enjoy mine. It's great on floats or wheels.

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The floats look great, are they H9?

Yes. The ones for their J3 Cub.

I did have a problem with the covering peeling - but it was fixable without resorting to fiberglassing or even recovering.

And I can tell you the Saratoga with TT Pro-46 engine is capable of lifting and flying with 10 ounces (measured) of water in one float. But when you nose down to land and the water all runs to the front ahead of the prop it gets VERY squirrely to handle. That's when I drilled a drain plug hole and measured what came out! Now I make it a habit to shake the model and listen for any sloshing.

The floats have keyed bulkheads, and one of the key cut-outs was low near the step and the covering peeled loose. Water was coming in from an airway left in the tab cut-out in the side sheeting. I peeled back the covering, filled the holes with epoxy and then spread Balsarite over the sheets and re-cemented the covering down, then sealed the edges. Has held since then.

A friend has the H9 Pulse XT with the same floats and that is also a great float plane. We were doing inverted flat spins at the last regional float-fly while most of the other pilots were just flying racetrack patterns.