Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub N10TA flies from Eugene to Oakland in 30 minutes

Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub, tail number N10TA, landed at Heavens Gate Ranch Airport (2OR4) in Oakland, Oregon, on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 21:20 UTC. The aircraft departed from Eugene Airport (KEUG) at 20:50 UTC, making the flight 30 minutes long. This was a short hop between two airports in Oregon.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about one hour before this flight. Its previous tracked landing was earlier on October 24 at Eugene Airport, which has a longest runway of 8,009 feet and an elevation of 374 feet. Heavens Gate Ranch Airport's longest runway is 5,100 feet, and its elevation is 965 feet.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 34 nm, or 39 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 68 knots, and it reached a top ground speed of 106 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 5,350 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 5 US gallons of fuel, producing about 48 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 119 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 500 nautical miles. It seats up to four passengers.

This was the first landing at Oakland 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, 247 nm from the arrival airport. 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 20 flights, totaling 29.7 hours in the air. Those flights visited 14 airports in 4 countries and covered about 10,337 nautical miles. The longest leg was a 4,070-nautical-mile trip from Farnborough, Hampshire to Abbotsford on September 30, 2026, flown by the Bombardier Challenger 604, tail number N222MC.

In the tracked window, the most common destinations for all of McCaw's aircraft were Santa Barbara with five landings, Victoria with two, and Seattle with two. Recent flights by the same owner include a 2-hour-8-minute trip from Renton to Eugene on October 24 in the CubCrafters XCub, and a 13-minute hop from Kenmore to Renton on October 23 in the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver.

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. Oakland is not known to be a hub for his companies, and no scheduled public appearance or corporate event tied to McCaw was found near the airport.

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 CubCrafters XCub remains at Heavens Gate Ranch as of this report.