CubCrafters CC19 XCub
CC19 XCub | |
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CubCrafters CC19-180 XCub | |
Role | Light aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Cub Crafters |
Introduction | June 2016 |
Status | In production (2016) |
Number built | 20 (July 2016) |
Developed from | CubCrafters Carbon Cub EX |
The CubCrafters CC19 XCub is an American light aircraft, designed and produced by Cub Crafters of Yakima, Washington, introduced in June 2016. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.[1][2]
Development
The XCub is a development of the
The XCub was developed in secret over a six-year period, 2010–2016, and was not publicly announced until
Type certification for day and night visual flight rules was granted by the FAA on 2 June 2016.[3] The CC19-180 was Type Certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency on 17 December 2017 and in Canada and Japan in August 2018.[4][5]
On 26 March 2019 the aircraft was also certified by the FAA in the
Design
The aircraft features a V-
The aircraft is made from welded
The aircraft has an empty weight of 1,216 lb (552 kg) and a gross weight of 2,300 lb (1,000 kg), giving a useful load of 1,084 lb (492 kg).[8]
The take-off and landing distance required at maximum gross weight has been demonstrated as 170 ft (52 m).[8]
In 2020 the manufacturer certified a new version of the design, the NXCub, (Nosewheel XCub) with tricycle landing gear, only available with the Lycoming IO-390 (CC393i) engine.[10] With additional parts, an XCub or NXCub can be readily converted between conventional and tricycle landing gear configurations, with NXCub simply being the model designation for aircraft factory-built with tricycle landing gear. The task of converting an aircraft requires two people and takes around four hours. An XCub or NXCub can also be fitted with floats.[11]
Operational history
In reviewing the CC19-180 in June 2016 after an evaluation flight,
In another June 2016 flight review of the CC19-180, Paul Bertorelli of AVweb said, "The XCub has aluminum rather than steel or the Cub’s traditional bungee gear. This was a revelation for me because aluminum does a nice job of absorbing surplus touchdown energy; it’s far less energetic than steel or those blasted bungees in returning misdirected touchdown energy. This results in a unique feeling on touchdown. If you know you’re a little fast and you know you’re going to bounce, it’s just a small one and not the sharp-edged twang of steel or the slingshot of the bungees, but rather a firm pushback with no lateral wiggles at all. It’s quite confidence inducing because those small bounces don’t require the massive control inputs to arrest that a really bad spring-steel bounce would."[12]
At
In a July 2016 review,
In a 2020 flight review of the tricycle landing gear-equipped CC19-180 NXCub model, KitPlanes magazine editor Marc Cook wrote, "truth is, for many pilots who came up in the period after 'real' Cubs made taildraggers the everyday airplane, the presence of a nosewheel on an airplane that’s as capable of off-pavement work as the NXCub will make the whole hard to resist. In fact, for many this is probably the backwoods airplane they’ve been waiting for all along."[10]
Variants
- CC19-180 XCub
- Certified, conventional landing gear model with 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 powerplant[7]
- CC19-215 XCub
- Certified, conventional landing gear model with 215 hp (160 kW) Lycoming IO-390 powerplant[7]
- CC19-215 NXCub
- Certified, tricycle landing gear model with 215 hp (160 kW) Lycoming IO-390 powerplant[10]
- CCX-2300 Experimental NXCub
- Experimental, tricycle landing gear model with 215 hp (160 kW) Lycoming IO-390 powerplant[15][16]
Specifications (XCub)
Data from Manufacturer and FAA[3][8]
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 23 ft 10 in (7.26 m)
- Wingspan: 34 ft 4 in (10.46 m)
- Height: 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m)
- Wing area: 174.8 sq ft (16.24 m2)
- Empty weight: 1,216 lb (552 kg)
- Gross weight: 2,300 lb (1,043 kg)
- Fuel capacity: 49 U.S. gallons (190 L; 41 imp gal)
- Powerplant: 1 × four stroke aircraft engine, 180 hp (130 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed constant speed propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 153 mph (246 km/h, 133 kn)
- Cruise speed: 145 mph (233 km/h, 126 kn)
- Stall speed: 39 mph (63 km/h, 34 kn)
- Never exceed speed: 167 mph (269 km/h, 145 kn)
- Range: 800 mi (1,300 km, 700 nmi)
- Endurance: 6 hours
- Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,500 ft/min (7.6 m/s)
References
- ^ a b c d e Bertorelli, Paul (5 June 2016). "Cub Crafters Rolls Out New XCub". AVweb. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ AOPA. Archived from the originalon 14 August 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ a b Federal Aviation Administration (2 June 2016). "Type Certificate Data Sheet No. A00053SE" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "EASA Type Certificate Data Sheet EASA IM.A.638 Dated 18 December 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ O'Connor, Kate (4 September 2018). "XCub Certified In Canada And Japan". AVweb. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ Niles, Russ (3 April 2019). "Cubcrafters Double Certifies XCub". AVweb. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ a b c "Form 1-K: Cub Crafters, Inc". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d Cub Crafters. "Specifications - XCub". xcub.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ Cook, Marc (15 July 2019). "CubCrafters Debuts More Powerful XCub". AVweb. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ a b c Cook, Marc (29 September 2020). "KitPlanes Review: CubCrafters NXCub". AVweb. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "CubCrafters NXCub: World's Best Flying Ugly Airplane". Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ Bertorelli, Paul (11 June 2016). "I'm Not Really A Cub Guy". AVweb. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ AVweb Staff (26 July 2016). "Cub Crafters Sells 20 XCubs, Announces Factory Training". AVweb. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- Flying magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ^ "CubCrafters will produce nosewheel NXCub". www.aopa.org. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "SOLD - N20XC 2021 NX Cub". CubCrafters. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.