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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cEngaging our customers in a Market Survey effort for this\nnew nosewheel option has been hugely important,\u201d says Patrick Horgan, President\nof CubCrafters. \u201cWe went into this process not entirely sure if the market\nwanted to accept a nosewheel-type personal adventure Cub. There is no question\nnow; we\u2019ve had people wanting to place deposits for this aircraft from day one.\nOur customers have made it very clear that they want us to build this\nairplane.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company also notes that hundreds of hours of real-world\nuse by a variety of pilots of varying skill levels during the Market Survey\nphase led to many design improvements that wouldn\u2019t otherwise have been\npossible in an internal-only development setting. Current and prospective\ncustomers were able to have a large influence on the final design of the\nnosewheel option for the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe added capabilities and value offered by the new\nnosewheel option are game-changing\u201d continues Horgan. \u201cThe XCub is easily\nconvertible between nosewheel and tailwheel, so you really get two airplanes in\none. A fast, modern, easy-to-fly, tricycle gear aircraft and a traditional\nbig-tire tailwheel Cub together. Both are very capable STOL aircraft designed\nfor the backcountry missions that CubCrafters\u2019 airplanes have always excelled\nat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With an extremely robust trailing-link nosewheel assembly\nand large tundra tires as an option for the mains, the nosewheel equipped XCub\nis capable of handling primitive landing strips and most off-airport type\noperations. Landing loads on the nosewheel are transmitted to the airframe by a\nheavy duty truss designed just for this application, and the entire nosewheel\nassembly itself is a bolt-on option that can be removed should the owner want\nto convert the airplane to a tailwheel configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is something I\u2019ve looked forward to for a long time,\u201d\ncomments Jim Richmond, CubCrafters\u2019 Founder and CEO. \u201cI\u2019ve always believed that\nback-country flying should be open to more than just tailwheel rated pilots,\nand it\u2019s exciting to see that vision now becoming a reality!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The XCub program has achieved a number of significant\nmilestones in its short history. After initial FAA certification in June of\n2016, the XCub was the first United States General Aviation aircraft to achieve\nnon-TSO\u2019d avionics approval for the Garmin G3X system in 2017. In 2019,\nCubCrafters collaborated with Lycoming and Hartzell to offer the new light\nweight CC393i fuel injected 215 horsepower engine and a new high performance PathFinder\n3-bladed composite propeller, for the XCub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Badged as the \u201cNX Cub\u201d for aircraft leaving the Factory in\nthe nosewheel configuration, the new tricycle gear option is available now on\nexperimental XCubs through the company\u2019s Builder Assist program, and CubCrafters\nexpects to achieve FAA Part 23 certification in early 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information, contact CubCrafters or your local\nCertified Sales Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following a year-long public Market Survey effort, light aircraft manufacturer CubCrafters has officially decided to certify and offer a nosewheel option for its flagship Part 23 certified aircraft, the CC-19 XCub. \u201cPutting a nosewheel on a modern Cub type aircraft certainly surprised some people, but the overwhelming public response has been positive, especially among the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/XCub-NX-Montains-medium-res-edit5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15763,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760\/revisions\/15763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}