Zlin Aviation Savage Cub
SAVGICAOVFRMSFS 2020 · 2024
~37/mo
A Czech-built microlight styled after the Piper Super Cub: steel-tube fuselage, fabric-covered wings, tandem seats and a tailwheel. Popular for bush flying, short strips and glider towing.
Units
Performance
- Cruise speed
- 81 kt
- Never-exceed speed (VNE)
- 111 kt
- Range
- 270 nm
- Service ceiling
- 13,780 ft
- Rate of climb
- 886 ft/min
Fuel
- Fuel type
- MOGAS (unleaded car fuel) · AVGAS 100LL
- Usable fuel
- 64 l
- Total capacity
- 68 l
- Wing tanks
- 2 × 34 l
- Usable fuel weighs
- 47 kg
Runway
- Usable surfaces
- Grass · Gravel · Asphalt · Concrete
No published runway figures for this type yet.
Cockpit and systems
- Cockpit
- Analog gauges
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 1
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 560 kg
- Empty weight
- 310 kg
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- UL (national licence) · LAPL(A) · PPL(A)
- Class rating
- Microlight (3-axis)
- Extra training or endorsements
- Tailwheel
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- VFR only
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Zlin Aviation
- Category
- Microlight
- Engines
- 1× Piston
- ICAO type designator
- SAVG
- Wake turbulence category
- L · Light
- In service since
- 2009
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- 2020 · 2024
Scale drawing
TopSideFrontLength 6.4 mWingspan 9.39 mHeight 2.03 m
- Length
- 6.4 m
- Wingspan
- 9.39 m
- Height
- 2.03 m
- Fuselage width
- 0.75 m
- Propeller diameter
- 1.83 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Zlin Aviation Savage CubLength 6.4 m
- Breezer Aircraft Breezer B400-6Length 6.74 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- White arc: flaps may be used
- Green arc: normal operating range
- Yellow arc: caution, smooth air only
- Red line: never exceed
- 33 kt
- 37 kt
- 56 kt
- 61 kt
- 73 kt
- 61 kt
- 86 kt
- 111 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
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