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Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters continues to make improvements to its already stellar-performing Carbon Cub series, announcing its third generation of

For about six years now, CubCrafters has kept a new two-seat taildragger design under wraps. Named the XCub, that secret airplane has now been revealed as the

Just in time for spring, Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters has added Wipline floats to the XCub type certificate, allowing the highly capable Part

Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters is celebrating a major milestone next year with the 10th anniversary of the Carbon Cub. To pay tribute to the successful

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CubCrafters, Yakima. 22,943 likes · 1,026 talking about this · 467 were here. CubCrafters was founded in 1980 and is located at McAllister Field Airport (YKM) in Yakima, WA.

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CubCrafters introduced two new models of the two-place, high-wing, single-engine aircraft based on Piper’s 80-year-old design and both share increases in payload, range, speed, and utility. The Carbon Cub EX–3 is an experimental amateur-built kit while the FX–3 is a factory builder-assisted version.

A new, FAA-certificated general aviation piston aircraft is a rarity these days, and CubCrafter’s XCub comes to the flying public as a fait accompli. Its six-year development was closely guarded, and the project wasn’t even announced until its formal application for an FAA type certificate had been made and new aircraft were in production.

Backcountry airplane manufacturer CubCrafters is full of surprises. Its new XCub was unveiled the day it was certified, and the airplane was developed entirely with existing company resources. And at EAA AirVenture another surprise: Despite taking no pre-orders for the airplane, they announced that more than 20 have been sold, the first of which was delivered at the show.

CubCrafters now offers a builder assistance program for the Carbon Cub FX.

Like a duck that switches from sitting placidly atop the water to a furiously splashing, flapping, quacking master of flight, the Amphibious Carbon Cub leaps into air with a burst of raw energy.<

By far, the more popular light sport model of the CubCrafters Cub is the Carbon Cub model, trouncing sales of the company's Sport Cub S2 by 80 Carbon Cub sales to one Sport Cub sale. Now, the FAA has listed the Carbon Cub as a kit requiring the owner to do 51 percent of the work.

A new lightweight taildragger aircraft, XCub was introduced by CubCrafters in June 2016, immediately after obtaining the US Federal Aviation…

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