Up To 800 Lbs. Bump Available Through STC

Following up on the approval of its newest STC earlier this year, this week CubCrafters released the aircraft modification requirements -- including pricing –- to increase the gross weight of any PA-18 series aircraft to 2300 lbs.

“The Super Cub is an incredibly capable airplane but limited in its original certification to either 1500 or 1750 lbs gross weight," said CubCrafters President Todd Simmons. "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!"

Even owners of 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," Simmons said. "Even better, the new gross weight STC allows for loads of nearly 800 LBS on Super Cubs equipped with Wipline 2100 amphibious floats.”

Though CubCrafters recommends incorporating the ”2300 LBS Gross Weight Increase” STC while a Super Cub undergoes a complete rebuild at the company, an owner can choose to install just one or two of the various prerequisite STC’s and modifications themselves -- including 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.

Complete STC details are available on the CubCrafters website. The first 2300 lb Super Cub is being modified now in Yakima and will be complete in late March of 2008, according to the company.

FMI: www.cubcrafters.com