While the Super Cub might be out of production for good, airplanes with similar silhouettes (and mission profiles) promise to dot the skies for decades to come, much to our delight.

The Piper Super Cub, officially designated as the Piper PA-18, would be the most popular Cub successor, with more than 10,000 units built by the airplane manufacturer.

The Piper PA-18 Super Cub helped create the STOL and bush aircraft categories that are popular among recreational pilots today.

Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters is known for taking the classic Piper Super Cub design to extremes. A new system could take the Cub and other aircraft further.

The PA-18 Super Cub series airplane was the last Piper production airplane type to carry the Cub nameplate. The first upgraded version of the J-3 was the PA-11 Cub Special which was distinguishable by ...

In Alaska, even the most innocent-looking landing site has the potential for disaster, as one father and son -- and their experimental Super Cub aircraft -- learned this summer.

Piper super cub with amphibious floats The Piper Super Cub was first certified in 1949, powered at the time by a Continental C90-12F. Over time, the power was increased and the final production run at ...

BATTLE LAKE, MN (Valley News Live) - On August 31 just after 12 p.m. a “Piper Super Cub” airplane crashed into a corn field. The plane was planning to land at Battle Lake airport during the ...

Video: Super Cub Pilot Needs Mere Feet to Take Off Large, soft tires allow pilots to land on very rough surfaces. Often landings are done on surfaces with softball to basketball sized rocks.

Nearly 20 years after Piper Aircraft discontinued production of the PA-18, the Super Cub remains the iconic plane for the Alaskan outback. It's not the fastest bird in the sky, but the following ...

VOSS, Norway (AP) — Garrett Fisher is traveling the world in his tiny blue-white “Super Cub” aircraft, on a quest to document every remaining glacier on Earth. The 41-year-old Fisher does it ...