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Light utility aircraft
Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a light utility aircraft originating in United States. It was built by Piper Aircraft.
Technical data
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Light utility aircraft
United States
Piper Aircraft
10,326
1949–1983; 1988–1994
1949
1949
Piper PA-11 Cub Special
1
1 passenger
22 ft 7 in (6.88 m)
35 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (10.732 m)
6 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (2.045 m)
178.5 sq ft (16.58 m 2 )
7:1
USA 35B MOD
930 lb (422 kg)
1,750 lb (794 kg)
36 US gal (30 imp gal; 140 L)
1 × Lycoming O-320 air-cooled flat four engine, 150 hp (110 kW)
130 mph (209 km/h, 113 kn)
115 mph (185 km/h, 100 kn) (75% power)
43 mph (69 km/h, 37 kn) (flaps down)
153 mph (246 km/h, 133 kn)
460 mi (740 km, 400 nmi)
19,000 ft (5,800 m)
960 ft/min (4.9 m/s)
500 ft (152 m)
725 ft (221 m)
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Piper PA-18 Super Cub equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings: PA-18 Super Cub. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIRCRAFT / TRG. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Air Force exact named PA-18 Super Cub component holdings; active, operational-reserve and training equipment excluding equipment in store, except explicit status exclusions stated below. November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national total or combat-readiness measure. Source armament/capacity counts are excluded. Exact Piper PA18 Super Cub only; no J3 Cub, PA11, PA23/Aztec or historical production totals included.
Reported count for Safat 01 · Safat-1. Service scope: Sudanese Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 11. Origin: Sudan. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2009), not the article revision. Cited source 2009-06-23. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Reported count for Safat 01 · Safat-1. Service scope: Sudanese Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 11. Origin: Sudan. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2009), not the article revision. Cited source 2009-06-23. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.