Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub N10TA lands at Stockton after 96-mile hop

Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub, tail number N10TA, landed at Stockton Metropolitan Airport (KSCK) on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 17:19 UTC. The aircraft departed from Richter Airport (12CN) in Maxwell at 16:16 UTC, making the flight 1 hour and 3 minutes long. This was a 96-nautical-mile trip between the two airports in California.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 96 nm, or 110 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 92 knots, and it reached a top ground speed of 103 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 1,425 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 10 US gallons of fuel, producing about 101 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 249 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 Stockton 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, 580 nm from Stockton. 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 24 flights, totaling 30.8 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 is a Pacific Northwest businessman who built McCaw Cellular Communications and sold it to AT&T in 1994 for $11.5 billion. He later led Nextel, co-founded Teledesic with Bill Gates, and founded Clearwire. He runs Eagle River Inc. and co-chairs Pendrell. McCaw's business interests have long been based around Carillon Point in Kirkland, Washington. Stockton 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 California in recent days. The XCub remains at Stockton as of this report.

The XCub departed from Richter Airport, which sits at 57 feet elevation. It landed at Stockton Metropolitan Airport, where the longest runway is 10,245 feet and the elevation is 33 feet. The aircraft had been on the ground for about 0 hours before this flight, having just landed at Orland earlier that day.

In the hours before the Stockton landing, the same XCub made several short hops. It flew from Corning to Orland, a 23-nautical-mile trip lasting 15 minutes. Earlier, it went from Redding to Cottonwood, covering 10 nautical miles in 6 minutes. The day before, it flew from Renton to Eugene, a 204-nautical-mile leg that took 2 hours and 8 minutes.

McCaw's other aircraft include a Bombardier Challenger 604, a Cessna 208 Caravan, and a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver. The Challenger flew from Palm Springs to Santa Barbara on October 19, a 204-nautical-mile trip. The Beaver flew from Kenmore to Renton on October 23, covering 14 nautical miles in 13 minutes. The longest leg for any of McCaw's aircraft in the past 30 days was a 4,070-nautical-mile flight from Farnborough, Hampshire to Abbotsford on September 30.