2027 Heartland Cyclone3511

The 3511 opens the Cyclone fifth-wheel line at forty-one feet two inches overall on a forty-foot box, sleeping six on two 8,000-pound axles and 17.5-inch H-rated tires. Its mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package is the fuller of the two Cyclone bodies: a 30-gallon fuel tank with locking enclosed pump and timer, a 3-season locking garage wall, 5,000-pound minimum breaking-load garage D-rings mounted to the steel frame, HappiJac electric-lift queen beds with convertible sofas, a rear loft ladder, a lift-assisted weatherproof anti-skid ramp door and a powder-coated aluminum patio kit with gate and entry steps. The mandatory Camping in Comfort package brings three high-efficiency Soft Start air conditioning units, a 12-volt black glass 17-cubic-foot refrigerator, 106 gallons of fresh water, 60-pound LP bottles, a 60,000-BTU on-demand tankless water heater and solid surface countertops.

The weights are published complete and tie out exactly: 13,875 pounds dry plus 3,925 pounds of cargo equals the 17,800-pound GVWR. The 2,960-pound dry pin is the lightest of the three fifth wheels. Read the cargo figure with care — 3,925 pounds is a real toy budget, but the 30-gallon fuel tank and 106 gallons of fresh water can claim several hundred pounds of it before anything with wheels goes in the back. Heartland publishes no garage length for this or any Cyclone, so if garage dimensions decide your purchase, the comparison you want is against the Momentum plans profiled here, which publish theirs.

Heartland publishes Cyclone as two separate lines that share no floorplan codes: the Cyclone fifth wheel and the Cyclone travel trailer. Both carry the same mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package — a 30-gallon fuel tank with a locking enclosed pump and timer, garage D-rings and a Tuff-Ply rubberized floor liner — and both publish their weights completely, which is rarer than it should be. The 3511 on this page is highlighted; each profiled plan links to its own page. Heartland does not publish a garage length for any Cyclone, so that column is absent from this catalog rather than estimated.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 106-gallon fresh tank is roughly 23% of the 3,925-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 3511 with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,960 pounds is 21% of this floorplan’s 13,875-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 17,800-pound GVWR the 3511 is towing 3,925 pounds more than its 13,875-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 106 gallons of fresh against 82 grey and 82 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 3511 sits 3 of 5 in the Cyclone line: 17,800 pounds against a line that runs from 11,700 to 21,000 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Cyclone 2615 is 4,550 pounds lighter at 13,250 lb GVWR; and Cyclone 3913 is 3,200 pounds heavier at 21,000 lb GVWR.

Against the 3511: the Pinnacle 38KPTS is 100 lb lighter and sleeps 2 fewer; the Model Z 3420 is 105 lb lighter and 1 ft shorter and sleeps 1 more; the North Point 387FBTS is 150 lb lighter and 2 ft longer and sleeps 2 fewer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Cyclone floorplans profiled here run 7,445 to 15,970 pounds dry and 28 to 47 feet of exterior length across 5 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Cyclone line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 3511. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: slide count, refrigerator. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.