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CubCrafters has opened a new dedicated Customer Completion Center in order to accommodate growing demand for the company’s line of Light Sport, Experimental, and FAA Certified backcountry aircraft. With plans to manufacture over 100 new airframes in 2019 alone, the company has continued to deliver on its commitment to ramp-up production. CubCrafters’ growth has been… Read more »
CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub is a complete redesign of the iconic Super Cub. This video tells the story of the engineering feat that was achieved to reinvigorate a legend and make it lighter, faster, stronger and safer than ever before. 2019 marks the tenth year of the Carbon Cub’s introduction. Stay tuned for more videos as… Read more »
Red Bull Air Race pilot, Łukasz Czepiela, landed a CubCrafters Carbon Cub EX-2 on the Sopot Pier in Poland. As you might guess, this was a first. Tourists strolling along the beach in Sopot on a Wednesday morning were surprised by the landing of an airplane on the famous pier. As it turned out, it… Read more »
CubCrafters will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Carbon Cub, the company’s most popular airframe series, during 2019. Milestones from the Carbon Cub history will be commemorated throughout the year and will culminate in an open-invitation fly-in & reception in October, dubbed Cubfest 2019, at the company’s factory headquarters in Yakima, Washington. The original Carbon… Read more »
Mark Keneston is CubCrafters’ Sales Manager in the Great Lakes/Northeast Territory 10/2/2019 PROGRESS UPDATE Hi again from the Yankee 1 skunkworks shop! Well…fall is here again. Since we last visited, we have had steady progress. As of this writing the tail feathers have been sprayed completely with poly brush and poly spray. The paint booth… Read more »
The author, Mark Keneston, is CubCrafters’ sales manager in the Great Lakes/Northeast territory. The plan was hatched shortly after AirVenture 2018: I would travel west to pick up CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub FX-3 demonstrator and fly it east for a two month stay. I had a bunch of demo flights to perform, and since the company… Read more »
The author, Yuval, is a Carbon Cub owner who splits his time between San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Israel Edited by CubCrafters America is a multi-cultural and multi-landscaped country which makes it such a unique and fascinating place. One of the most interesting, though relatively small, groups of people I have met during my life… Read more »
CubCrafters announced that its top-of-the-line aircraft, the XCub, has secured type certification from Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA). The approval allows the company to begin deliveries of both land and seaplane versions of the aircraft to Canadian buyers immediately. A Type Certificate was also issued for the XCub by the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB),… Read more »
CubCrafters’ Signature paint scheme has slowly evolved over the years, and it certainly flatters our Cubs. It’s easy to recognize one of our airplanes from a hundred yards or more. Our schemes are often imitated and have become an important part of the CubCrafters brand. Still, not everyone wants “stock” paint. This “digital-camo” scheme mimics… Read more »
CUBCRAFTERS EXHIBITS 3RD GENERATION CARBON CUBS AT AIRVENTURE 2018 Exciting New EX-3 and FX-3 Models Contribute to New Chapter in Company’s Expansion CubCrafters will display the newest Carbon Cub variants in the company’s exhibit at AirVenture starting July 23. Both the EX-3 and FX-3 models spotlight CubCrafters’ new fuel-injected engine, the addition of a constant-speed… Read more »
