Bravo CubCrafters. Bravo.
On June 2, XCub officially joined the CubCrafters line-up. It’s a 180-horsepower machine with lots of bells and whistles, including heated seats (coming soon) and a $297,500 base price. Go ahead haters… pile on. They can take it.
But from my perspective, the best feature of the XCub announcement is… it’s certified and available for immediate delivery.
No vaporware here.
The only other company I recall making a similar (ready-to-fly/ready-to-deliver) announcement is Daher with the TBM 900 and the 930. That’s a sad sentence to write.
Too often in this industry we hear about a product that is “in development” or “in the works” or [you fill in the blank]. Sometimes the bird makes it to market… oftentimes not.
Cough cough, ICON, cough cough.
So I say again, Bravo CubCrafters. Some in the aviation industry would be well served to follow your lead.
Looks like a great aeroplane and very similar in performance/payload to a Husky.
Absolutely!, in an industry where the mantra is “it’s the FAA’s fault, it’s too hard and expensive to certify.” this is great news. A $297,500 base price on a 140 MPH cruise, STANDARD CATEGORY, airplane is not bad at all. It is way beyond my price range, but that it is a glass panel hot rod with a demonstrated 170 ft. landing and TAKE-OFF distance it is great. The Piper Super Cub became legend for being able to take -off anywhere it could land and this surly is the evolutionary successor to the fabled PA-18.
I agree you have to give them the credit they are due for not telling people continually the product will be delivered to customers next year. Icon and the Cirrus SF50 come easily come to mind in recent news. Good job CubCrafters!