Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub N10TA lands at Corcoran after 47-mile hop

Craig McCaw's CubCrafters XCub, tail number N10TA, landed at Boswell Airport (24CL) in Corcoran, California, on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 19:51 UTC. The aircraft departed from Yribarren Airport (US-5760) in Kerman at 19:22 UTC, making the flight 29 minutes long. This was a short hop between two airports in California's Central Valley.

The great-circle distance for this leg was 47 nm, or 55 miles. The aircraft's average ground speed was 98 knots, and it reached a top ground speed of 103 knots. The highest altitude recorded was 3,450 feet. Based on our estimates, the flight burned about 5 US gallons of fuel, producing about 46 kg of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 115 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 Corcoran 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, 698 nm from Corcoran. 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 27 flights, totaling 32.5 hours in the air. The most common destinations were Santa Barbara, with 5 landings; Victoria, with 2 landings; and Seattle, with 2 landings.

Before this flight, the same CubCrafters XCub made eight other flights on October 24 and 25, 2026. Those hops included a 2-hour 8-minute leg from Renton to Eugene, a 30-minute leg from Eugene to Oakland, and a 13-minute leg from Redding to Redding. On October 25 alone, the aircraft flew from Redding to Cottonwood, Corning to Orland, Maxwell to Stockton, Stockton to Merced, and Chowchilla to Madera. The longest leg by any of the owner's aircraft in the prior 30 days was a 4,070-nautical-mile flight from Farnborough, Hampshire to Abbotsford on September 30, 2026, flown by the Bombardier Challenger 604.

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 $11.5B. He later led Nextel, co-founded Teledesic with Bill Gates, and founded Clearwire. He runs Eagle River Inc. and co-chairs Pendrell. No news reports link this specific flight to any business meeting or personal event near Corcoran. The aircraft is registered to Flight Management LLC in Kirkland, Washington, not to McCaw personally.

Boswell Airport's longest runway is 6,815 feet, and its elevation is 205 feet. The departure field, Yribarren Airport, sits at 240 feet elevation. The aircraft had spent about 0 hours on the ground before this flight, having landed previously at Madera on the same day.

The CubCrafters XCub is one of four aircraft in McCaw's fleet, which also includes a 1965 de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (N1CM), a 2001 Cessna 208 Caravan (N688MC), and a 1996 Canadair Challenger 604 (N222MC). The aircraft remains at Boswell Airport as of this report.