Randy Lervold Named President of Cubcrafters

[sj]

Yakima, Washington – January 20, 2015: Light aircraft designer and manufacturer CubCrafters has announced the promotion of Randy Lervold to the position of President. Lervold has served as General Manager at CubCrafters since 2009 and has overseen a period of unprecedented growth for the 35 year old company.

Company founder and CEO, Jim Richmond, comments, “When Randy joined CubCrafters in 2009, he bought a fresh perspective to our business. He is organized, focused, and understands our customer. I have asked Randy to take the lead as President of CubCrafters, and I will assume a more ‘hands off’ role as CEO. Randy will continue to manage day to day operations as he has, but will now concentrate on building a leadership team that will allow the company to fully realize the opportunities ahead. We are looking forward to the many positive challenges facing us in the coming years, and I want to give him latitude to make the good decisions that need to be made in order for CubCrafters to become a world class manufacturer of sport and utility aircraft. I am confident in Randy’s abilities”.

“I appreciate the recognition and I am extremely excited about the potential for CubCrafters”, said Lervold. “For the past five years we have worked toward building not only best-in-class aircraft, but a great aircraft company as well. That is the path we will continue to follow“. In positioning the company for further growth, Lervold indicates he will announce additional senior management changes throughout the first half of 2015. The company reports that Mr. Richmond will to continue to focus on product development and other growth opportunities.


ABOUT CUBCRAFTERS
CubCrafters, founded in 1980 by current owner and CEO, Jim Richmond, is located at McAllister Field Airport (YKM) in Yakima, WA. CubCrafters’ roots are in the 60-year history of classic taildragger aviation, but its products and services are leading edge.
CubCrafters offers three new, ready-to-fly aircraft. The second generation SPORT CUB S2 is the long awaited redesign of the classic airplane that inspired the light sport category. The CARBON CUB SS, a more powerful version of the S2 with 180 horsepower, is the most powerful LSA aircraft in production. The TOP CUB, with a useful load of over 1000 lbs., is the most capable two-place personal and utility aircraft in its class. CubCrafters also offers their Carbon Cub in a kit version, the Carbon Cub EX.

 

[sj]

Congratulations, Randy!

sj

 

[OLDCROWE]

Great news Randy!

 

[FdxLou]

Congrats Randy!
Jim certainly picked the best man to lead CC in the years ahead.

Lou

 

[Rick Papp]

Congratulations Randy. Jim, you have built a great team to develop a fantastic aviation company with your vision. I am sure the future is bright for Cubcrafters due to the great people producing a supreme quality product. Rick Papp

 

[Bill Rusk]

Congrats Randy. Well deserved. You and Jim have done great things and I look forward to "more and better".

Bill

 

[randylervold]

Thanks for the kind words guys. We see a bright future and are doing everything we can to realize it. The Super Cub community is of course where are roots are, but we think we can evolve both our aircraft designs and our company quite a bit further. That will mean a continuing stream of newer and better performing aircraft with a robust company in place to support the fleet. Everybody wins with this because there is then a growing fleet of used aircraft around that still perform well (better than a Super Cub I hope) that work their way down I price over time so that they are available to a wider audience.

I'd like everybody here to know that we consider the supercub.org community important. In fact internally here we refer to this community as "key influencers". We know that in general this is where the most knowledgeable and savvy Super Cub folks hang out and that at the airports where you all live you are the go-to guys for anyone wanting to know anything about Super Cubs, or probably any backcountry aircraft.

So thanks for the support, and we'll do our part in trying to raise the bar all the way around!

 

[johnc]

Congrats! Hope to see you at Johnson Creek this year.
John and Connie Cooley

 

[Eddie Foy]

Trouble is that the Carbon Cubs are priced out of the reach of most folks.

Eddie

 

[randylervold]

Trouble is that the Carbon Cubs are priced out of the reach of most folks.

Eddie

As the fleet ages the prices for the older Carbon Cubs will come down thus widening the market. Of course that won't happen overnight though.

 

[jaypratt]

Randy,

Congratulations! Wishing you and Cub Crafters many good years to come.

 

[windy]

Congratulations Randy! Very well deserved!!
windy