Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub N10TA flies a two-minute hop at Dunsmuir

Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub, tail number N10TA, landed at Dunsmuir Muni-Mott Airport (K1O6) on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 22:45 UTC. The aircraft departed from the same airport at 22:43 UTC, making the flight 2 minutes long. This was a short hop that began and ended at the same field in California.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 8 nm, or 10 miles. The aircraft's top ground speed was 111 knots, and the highest altitude recorded was 7,325 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 0 US gallons of fuel, producing about 3 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 7 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 two passengers.

Dunsmuir Muni-Mott Airport has a longest runway of 2,800 feet and sits at an elevation of 3,258 feet. The aircraft had been on the ground about 1 hour before this flight, following a tracked landing at Oakland on October 24.

This was the first landing at Dunsmuir by one 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, 376 nm from Dunsmuir. 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. Recent flights by N10TA included a 30-minute leg from Eugene to Oakland on October 24 and a 2-hour 8-minute leg from Renton to Eugene on the same day.

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. Dunsmuir is a small town in northern California, and no news reports link this specific flight to any business meeting or personal event.

In the 30 days before this flight, all four of McCaw's aircraft made 21 flights totaling 30.2 hours in the air. Those flights visited 15 airports in 4 countries and covered about 10,371 nautical miles. The longest leg was 4,070 nautical miles from Farnborough, Hampshire to Abbotsford on September 30, flown by the Challenger 604.

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 was a brief local movement at a single airport.

The most common destinations for all of McCaw's aircraft in the tracked window were Santa Barbara with 5 landings, Victoria with 2 landings, and Seattle with 2 landings. Recent flights by other McCaw aircraft included a 13-minute hop from Kenmore to Renton on October 23 in the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, and multiple trips between Palm Springs and Santa Barbara in the Challenger 604.