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CUBCRAFTERS ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF UP TO 800 LBS USEFUL LOAD INCREASE AVAILABLE FOR ALL SUPER CUBS
12.4.07 Yakima, WA Following up on the approval of our newest STC earlier this year, today CubCrafters released the aircraft modification requirements - including pricing – to increase the gross weight of any PA-18 series aircraft to 2300 LBS.
CubCrafters President Todd Simmons commented, “The Super Cub is an incredibly capable airplane but limited in its original certification to either 1500 or 1750 LBS gross weight. So the one feature operators have long desired is more useful load. With CubCrafters new STC, an owner can take that same airplane, and for earlier model PA-18’s, nearly triple his or her useful load to 1100 LBS or more by increasing the legal maximum gross weight to 2300 LBS! Later model Super Cubs that were certified to higher gross weights, including those at 2000 LBS gross weight with the current STC, still can get a substantial useful load increase with the new 2300 LBS STC. That translates to nearly unlimited cargo flexibility for a Super Cub on wheels. Even better, the new gross weight STC allows for loads of nearly 800 LBS on Super Cubs equipped with Wipline 2100 amphibious floats.”
The ”2300 LBS Gross Weight Increase” STC is best incorporated while a Super Cub is undergoing a complete rebuild at CubCrafters. However, an owner can choose to install just one or two of the various prerequisite STC’s and modifications today, for example heavy duty landing gear or the 180 HP engine conversion, with an eye toward having all the requirements in place for the 2300 LBS gross weight increase in the future. To download a PDF with complete STC details, visit www.cubcrafters.com
The first 2300 LB Super Cub is being modified now in Yakima and will be complete in late March of 2008.
ABOUT CUBCRAFTERS
CubCrafters, founded in 1980 by current owner and Chairman Jim Richmond, is located at Yakima Air Terminal/McAllister Field Airport (YKM) in Yakima, WA. CubCrafters’ roots are in the 60 year history of classic ‘taildragger’ aviation, but its products and services - New aircraft, CAD-based design and engineering, CNC tooling and fabrication, Lean-manufacturing, and Award-winning tube and fabric aircraft restoration - are leading edge.
CubCrafters offers two all new, FAA-certified, ready-to-fly, aircraft: the second generation SPORT CUB S2, the follow on airplane to the original SPORT CUB: the long awaited redesign of the classic airplane that inspired the light sport category; and TOP CUB, the most capable two-place personal and utility aircraft. In early 2007, CubCrafters was issued only the second FAA ‘Production Certificate’ in the state of Washington, and is now the only U.S. aircraft manufacturer producing and delivering both standard and LSA category aircraft under an FAA-approved quality assurance program. In 2007, CubCrafters will produce a combined-model total of nearly 100 new aircraft.
CubCrafters, under the banner CubCrafters Services, is the recognized authority for re-building and modifying PA-18 Super Cubs and similar aircraft, and it stocks a broad range of STCs, PMA’d parts and modification kits for the existing fleet. In 2007, more than 120 aircraft will pass through CubCrafters Services for rebuild, repair, modification or routine maintenance.
CubCrafters Partners is the organization’s group of preferred vendor, maintenance and training suppliers while CubCrafters Resale is the pre-owned aircraft sales unit specializing in Cub, Super Cub and similar aircraft.
For more information, visit www.cubcrafters.com, or for images and company logos, visit www.cubcrafters.com/media
12.4.07 Yakima, WA Following up on the approval of our newest STC earlier this year, today CubCrafters released the aircraft modification requirements - including pricing – to increase the gross weight of any PA-18 series aircraft to 2300 LBS.
CubCrafters President Todd Simmons commented, “The Super Cub is an incredibly capable airplane but limited in its original certification to either 1500 or 1750 LBS gross weight. So the one feature operators have long desired is more useful load. With CubCrafters new STC, an owner can take that same airplane, and for earlier model PA-18’s, nearly triple his or her useful load to 1100 LBS or more by increasing the legal maximum gross weight to 2300 LBS! Later model Super Cubs that were certified to higher gross weights, including those at 2000 LBS gross weight with the current STC, still can get a substantial useful load increase with the new 2300 LBS STC. That translates to nearly unlimited cargo flexibility for a Super Cub on wheels. Even better, the new gross weight STC allows for loads of nearly 800 LBS on Super Cubs equipped with Wipline 2100 amphibious floats.”
The ”2300 LBS Gross Weight Increase” STC is best incorporated while a Super Cub is undergoing a complete rebuild at CubCrafters. However, an owner can choose to install just one or two of the various prerequisite STC’s and modifications today, for example heavy duty landing gear or the 180 HP engine conversion, with an eye toward having all the requirements in place for the 2300 LBS gross weight increase in the future. To download a PDF with complete STC details, visit www.cubcrafters.com
The first 2300 LB Super Cub is being modified now in Yakima and will be complete in late March of 2008.
ABOUT CUBCRAFTERS
CubCrafters, founded in 1980 by current owner and Chairman Jim Richmond, is located at Yakima Air Terminal/McAllister Field Airport (YKM) in Yakima, WA. CubCrafters’ roots are in the 60 year history of classic ‘taildragger’ aviation, but its products and services - New aircraft, CAD-based design and engineering, CNC tooling and fabrication, Lean-manufacturing, and Award-winning tube and fabric aircraft restoration - are leading edge.
CubCrafters offers two all new, FAA-certified, ready-to-fly, aircraft: the second generation SPORT CUB S2, the follow on airplane to the original SPORT CUB: the long awaited redesign of the classic airplane that inspired the light sport category; and TOP CUB, the most capable two-place personal and utility aircraft. In early 2007, CubCrafters was issued only the second FAA ‘Production Certificate’ in the state of Washington, and is now the only U.S. aircraft manufacturer producing and delivering both standard and LSA category aircraft under an FAA-approved quality assurance program. In 2007, CubCrafters will produce a combined-model total of nearly 100 new aircraft.
CubCrafters, under the banner CubCrafters Services, is the recognized authority for re-building and modifying PA-18 Super Cubs and similar aircraft, and it stocks a broad range of STCs, PMA’d parts and modification kits for the existing fleet. In 2007, more than 120 aircraft will pass through CubCrafters Services for rebuild, repair, modification or routine maintenance.
CubCrafters Partners is the organization’s group of preferred vendor, maintenance and training suppliers while CubCrafters Resale is the pre-owned aircraft sales unit specializing in Cub, Super Cub and similar aircraft.
For more information, visit www.cubcrafters.com, or for images and company logos, visit www.cubcrafters.com/media
