CubCrafters Carbon Cub EX


The CubCrafters Carbon Cub EX is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Cub Crafters of Yakima, Washington. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development

The Carbon Cub EX features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit that is wide and accessed via a door, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The design is related to the company's CubCrafters Carbon Cub SS light-sport aircraft, but adapted to the US experimental amateur-built category.
The aircraft's airframe is made from welded steel tubing, aluminum and the judicious use of carbon fiber, covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The aircraft's recommended engine power is and standard engines used include the Continental O-200, the Lycoming O-360 and the ECi CC340 four-stroke powerplant. Construction time from the supplied kit ranges from 700 to 1100 hours.

Operational history

By December 2016 four examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and six with Transport Canada.

Variants

;Carbon Cub EX-2
;Carbon Cub EX-3
;Carbon Cub FX-2
;Carbon Cub FX-3

Specifications (Carbon Cub EX)