CubCrafters

CubCrafters announced this week that it can now incorporate two of Garmin’s ADS-B transponders into its Cub-style taildragger Carbon Cubs. Carbon Cub owners, of both the production LSA and experimental kit versions, who select the Executive Glass Touch option featuring the Garmin G3X Touch screen, can choose either the Garmin GTX 335R or GTX 345R […]

The criteria we use to select our annual Editors’ Choice award winners are fairly simple: We look for the best products, technologies, ideas and innovations that emerged in the preceding year. Once we’ve separated the merely good from the great, we cull our list even further, debating why some contenders should make the final cut […]

The past year was packed with exciting new aircraft, incredible aviators, and no shortage of fun airshows and exhibitions, and we took every chance we could to bring you there with some of the best photography in aviation. Look back with us on 2016 with photos of new airplanes, from the highly anticipated HondaJet to […]

It was a year filled with big news stories that not only helped to reshape the general aviation landscape but will almost certainly continue to do so for many years to come. The past 12 months have seen aircraft milestones, major changes to FAA regulations and a presidential election unlike any we have witnessed in […]

After bringing the BRS full-airframe parachute to the Carbon Cub last May, CubCrafters now says it will offer retrofit parachute systems in all of its airplanes. The retrofits are available for CubCrafters’ production Sport Cub and Carbon Cub SS, as well as the company’s Carbon Cub FX builder-assist model and the EX/EX-2 kits. Two retrofit […]

Several aviation and tech industry leaders have joined Flying Aviation Expo’s weekend lineup, which promises to be packed with aircraft displays, educational workshops and seminars. The acclaimed HondaJet and Cessna Citation M2 will be on exhibit during the expo at the Palm Springs International Airport from October 20–22. Other aircraft displays will include the Aviat […]

TacAero and CubCrafters have teamed up to offer factory-authorized flight training for all CubCrafters models at TacAero’s facility in Hood River, Oregon, which is about a 45 minute flight from the factory in Yakima, Washington. Following EAA AirVenture 2016, the new CC-19 XCub will be added to the lineup. The introductory price of the five-day […]

I could smell the pine trees below as I turned base and the nose of the little taildragger I was piloting pointed toward a sheer rock wall. When I turned final, the runway was still invisible. It was at the end of a narrow gorge that followed down the mountainside. Tracking that line, I continued […]

Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters surprised the aviation industry when it introduced a Part 23 certified advanced version of the classic Cub earlier this summer. Named XCub, the new taildragger blends the terrific backcountry capabilities CubCrafters’ airplanes have become known for with much improved cruise speed, range and carrying capacity. We had a chance to test fly […]