Will Luggar submitted this photo and note: “First flight after an eight-month build of a Carbon Cub EX3! It’s at home flying off a private 1,600-foot grass runway in northern Minnesota. It took around 700 hours to build the EX3, which features a Garmin G3X and autopilot. It is powered by an experimental 363i Lycoming engine, which produces 186 hp.”
CubCrafters
Last chance to win a new Carbon Cub
The 2022 Carbon Cub FX-3, built by youth members of the Alaska Airmen’s Association NextGen Club with assist from CubCrafters, is now in Alaska and ready to be raffled off to its new owner. You don’t have to be present to win when the grand prize ticket is drawn May 8, 2022.
Win a new Carbon Cub
You don’t have to be in Alaska to win the experimental aircraft. All proceeds from the raffle go to support general aviation in Alaska.
Celebration of life slated for CubCrafters founder
The celebration of life will be held Dec. 4, 2021, at the CubCrafters factory in Yakima, Washington.
CubCrafters founder flies west
Both Jim Richmond and the company he founded, CubCrafters, are names that are synonymous with backcountry aviation.
New mission for XCub
The XCub was identified by Air Force officials as the safest and most capable commercial-off-the-shelf aircraft for the initial flying experiment to test the new system.
Picture of the Day: Happy Canyon Utah
Jason Null submitted this photo and note: “Happy Canyon, Utah, fall camping. Perry Null with his grandson Morgan Arsenault and the Carbon Cub.”
CubCrafters XCub heads to Europe
The first XCub in Europe will be based at an airfield north of London.
Two planes in one: CubCrafters to offer a convertible tailwheel-nosewheel XCub
The new tricycle gear option is available now on experimental XCubs. FAA certification is expected in early 2021.