Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub N10TA flies from Renton to Eugene in 2 hours 8 minutes

Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub, tail number N10TA, landed at Eugene Airport (KEUG) on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 20:10 UTC. The aircraft departed from Renton Municipal Airport (KRNT) at 18:01 UTC, making the flight 2 hours and 8 minutes long. This was a 204-nautical-mile trip between the two airports in Oregon and Washington state.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 204 nm, or 235 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 96 knots, and it reached a top ground speed of 116 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 3,825 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 21 US gallons of fuel, producing about 205 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 508 miles. The CubCrafters XCub is a 2019 bush plane, serial CCX-2000-0080, with a top speed of about 140 knots and a range of around 800 nautical miles. It seats up to two passengers.

This was the first landing at Eugene by any of McCaw's aircraft in the tracked window. The home base on file for McCaw's aircraft is King County International Airport - Boeing Field (KBFI) in Seattle, 208 nm from Eugene. Other usual destinations include Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, Jackson Hole Airport, Palm Springs International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, and Juneau International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, all four of McCaw's aircraft made 19 flights, totaling 27.6 hours in the air. The most common destinations were Santa Barbara, with 5 landings; Victoria, with 2 landings; and Seattle, with 2 landings.

Craig McCaw, born 1949 in Centralia, was the second of J. Elroy McCaw's four sons and inherited a small cable system when his father died in 1969. He spent the 1980s buying cellular licences nobody else wanted and assembled them into McCaw Cellular Communications, which AT&T bought in 1994 for $11.5 billion. He later led Nextel, co-founded Teledesic with Bill Gates, and founded Clearwire. McCaw's business interests have long been based around Carillon Point in Kirkland, Washington. Eugene is not known to be a hub for his companies, and no news reports link this specific flight to any business meeting or personal event.

The aircraft is registered to Flight Management LLC in Kirkland, Washington, not to McCaw personally. The 'MC' tail numbers on his four aircraft align with that address, but no filing or news report confirms the ownership. The flight is part of a pattern of short hops in the Pacific Northwest in recent days. The XCub remains at Eugene as of this report.

The day before this flight, another of McCaw's aircraft, a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (N1CM), flew from Kenmore to Renton Municipal Airport, a 14-nautical-mile hop lasting 13 minutes. The Challenger 604 (N222MC) made several trips between Santa Barbara and Palm Springs in mid-October, including a 617-nautical-mile leg from Grand Junction to Santa Barbara on October 13. The longest leg among all four aircraft in the prior 30 days was a 4,070-nautical-mile flight from Farnborough, Hampshire, to Abbotsford on September 30.

Eugene Airport's longest runway is 8,009 feet, at an elevation of 374 feet. Renton Municipal Airport's longest runway is 5,382 feet, at an elevation of 32 feet. The CubCrafters XCub is registered under the L-Bird LLC type certificate. The other aircraft in McCaw's fleet include a 1965 de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (N1CM), a 2001 Cessna 208 Caravan (N688MC), and a 1996 Canadair Challenger 604 (N222MC).