12.4.07 Yakima, WA -  Following up on the approval of our newest STC earlier this year, today CubCrafters released the aircraft modification requirements - including pricing – to increase the gross weight of any PA-18 series aircraft to 2300 LBS.

CubCrafters President Todd Simmons commented, “The Super Cub is an incredibly capable airplane but limited in its original certification to either 1500 or 1750 LBS gross weight. 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! 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. Even better, the new gross weight STC allows for loads of nearly 800 LBS on Super Cubs equipped with Wipline 2100 amphibious floats.”

The ”2300 LBS Gross Weight Increase” STC is best incorporated while a Super Cub is undergoing a complete rebuild at CubCrafters. However, an owner can choose to install just one or two of the various prerequisite STC’s and modifications today, for example 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. To download a PDF with complete STC details: click here

The first 2300 LB Super Cub is being modified now in Yakima and will be complete in late March of 2008.