The CubCrafters Carbon Cub EX (EX - Experimental) 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.Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 49. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
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 (Depending on builder experience).
In August 2022, a new engine option was introduced, the CC363i F/P, equipped with a constant-speed propeller.
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 Kit built variant CubCrafters EX-2 363i Kit version introduced in December 2022 with a Lycoming/CC 363i engine. Carbon Cub EX-3 Kit built variant with a Superior Air Parts CC363i engine and increased gross weight. Carbon Cub FX-2 Factory-builder assist variant Carbon Cub FX-3 Factory-builder assist variant with a Superior Air Parts CC363i engine and increased gross weight.
Specifications (Carbon Cub EX)
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