

- Maintain Your Shine!
- Get Your Floats Ready for the Season
- Brush Up Your Summer Seaplane Skills
- Are You Balanced?
- How to Maintain Your Plane
- Winter Interior Care
- Amphibious Float Hydraulic Maint
- What is Your Aircraft Interior Made Of?
- Maintenance Recommendations
- Wipline Airglide Skis, Making Winter Fun
- Are Your Skis Ready to Fly?
- Wipline Float Component Repair
- Wing-X STOL Conversions
- Get Your Floats Ready for the Season
- Keeping Your Airplane in Tune
- The C180 Kenmore Gross
Wipline 3000 floats feature modern hydrodynamic design with formed fluted bottom skins and high bow buoyancy, making them very slippery and extremely fast off the water. Our floats also have the best water rudder control with internal cables. Wipline floats have non-skid coated, flat top decks for safety with the largest float hatches in the business, making your gear ultra easy to stow. With up to 3,472 pounds of buoyancy on amphibious floats or 3,668 pounds on straight floats, your payload will not be limited by your floats.
Our Wipline 3000 amphibious float has the best nose gear and main gear designs on the market, proven through rigorous engineering testing and years of service. New re-buildable hydraulic landing gear actuators help keep maintenance to a minimum at reduced costs. Our amphibious floats also come with the added safety of a Lake & Air Gear Advisory System. Experience the amphibious versatility of being able store your prize aircraft in the hangar, taxi up to the fuel pump, and fly off to your remote water destination.
| Model 3000 Parts Manual for Cessna 180 | |
| Model 3000 &3450 Service Manual |
Wipline 3000 Specifications
| Specifications for the Cessna 180 / 3000 Float | |
| DIMENSIONS (external) | |
| Length -- including extended nose gear and extended water rudder | 6.096 m / 20'8" |
| Length -- nose to step | 2.84 m / 9'4" |
| Height -- hull | 0.74 m / 2'5" |
| Width -- hull | 0.81 m / 2'8" Draw |
| Draw Depth | 0.51 m / 20" |
| WEIGHT | |
| Amphibian System Total Weight | 278 kg / 632 lbs |
| Amphibian Exchange Weight* | 219 kg / 483 lbs |
| Seaplane System Total Weight | 198 kg / 432 lbs |
| Seaplane Exchange Weight* | 128 kg / 282 lbs |
| Standard Empty Weight Amphibious** | 908 kg / 2002 lbs |
| Standard Empty Weight Seaplane** | 817 kg / 1802 lbs |
| Gross Weight - Models 180-180F | 1,292 kg / 2,850 lbs |
| Gross Weight - Models 180G-180K | 1,338 kg / 2,950 lbs |
| Standard Useful Load - Models 180-180F** | 385 kg / 848 lbs Amphibious 475 kg / 1,048 lbs Seaplane |
| Standard Useful Load - Models 180G-180K** | 430 kg / 948 lbs Amphibious 520 kg / 1,148 lbs Seaplane |
| Float Locker Capacity | 22.7 kg / 50 lbs each |
*Exchange=Float Installation weight minus aircraft landing gear weight. ** Standard weights will vary by aircraft. |
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| WHEELS | |
| Main (single) | 6.00 x 6-8 ply |
| Nose | 4.10 x 3.5-4 ply |
| HYDRAULIC PUMP | |
| Located on firewall | |
| DISPLACEMENT | |
| Amphibious | (100%) 3,125 lbs. -- (80%)*** 3,472 lbs. |
| Seaplane | (100%) 3,301 lbs. -- (80%)* **3,668 lbs. |
| ***Maximum aircraft gross weight with 80% reserve buoyancy (2 floats) as per TSO-C27. | |
Wipline 3000 Pricing
| Aircraft | Floats & Rigging | Installation | ||
| Amphibious | Seaplane | Amphibious | Seaplane | |
| Cessna 180 (Through K model) | $71,100 | $38,100 | $8,500 | $5,600 |
- All amphibious floats include landing gear advisory system.
- Float rigging and FAA STC paperwork included.
- Call for discount details if the aircraft has seaplane modifications previously installed.
- Product installation assumes standard factory aircraft. Non-standard aircraft may be subject to additional installation charges
- Float paint option:
- Overall base color to match aircraft is included.
- Two trim colors to match scheme of aircraft is included.
- Additional trim colors quoted per color and paint scheme.
- Complex paint scheme, inboard and bottom painting of floats, please call for pricing.
- Paint information and paint scheme will be requested at the time of deposit. If paint colors are not provided, we will match colors to the best of our ability, but will not guarantee 100% match or a definite delivery date.
- Customer choice of polyurethane or silver-gray submersion paint is included. There is no paint warranty for polyurethane floats stored in water for extended periods.
- Models 180 and 185 prices assume airframe is equipped with a factory installed float kit and appropriate seaplane propeller is provided.
- Models 182 P, Q, R, S and T include extensive airframe and firewall modifications including hoist rings, “V” brace, ventral fin, wide cord rudder, extended tail stinger and Hartzell three-blade seaplane/landplane propeller.
- Maule installation price includes ventral fin (Maule P/N 9014) and Wipline clamp-on rear fuselage fittings.
Effective for floats delivered after January 1, 2010