Yakima Aerosport Super Breezy

Back in the’60′s, if you wanted to have fun flying, you took to the air in an old Cub or Champ and you enjoyed every minute of it. Three Chicago-area pilots, doing corporate flying in Twin Beeches, thought that there had to be a way to enjoy flying even more. Most private pilots were happy just to log a few hours every weekend, but Carl Unger, Charles Roloff,and Bob Liposky had something more extreme in mind and soon they’d be taking to the skies in what would eventually be called a Breezy.

A friend of theirs had a pair of wings from a wrecked PA-12. They sourced a tail section and a nose wheel fork from other aircraft. Unger was an expert welder, so they set about building an airframe to connect the parts together.

The scrounging for parts paid off and with the money they saved, they bought a new C90 with a special pusher crank and bolted it behind the wing. The airframe was a simple truss design, uncomplicated by the need to enclose the passengers and systems. Everything bolted to the outside, and the pilot perched on the nose.

They flew their creation all over the mid-west, having a blast and raising eyebrows everywhere they went. Someone asked them if it was a little breezy sitting out in the open, and the name “Breezy” stuck.

At the’65 Rockford EAA fly-in they introduced the aircraft to the public. The Breezy spent the entire weekend giving rides to enthusiastic passengers.

After returning from the fly-in, they were surprised by the large volume of mail asking for plans from which to build a Breezy. They hadn’t drawn any plans when building the plane, so they reverse-engineered a set. Since then, over 1,000 copies of the simple drawings have been sold.

Although the Breezy had outstanding performance for its power, some thought that it could be improved upon. Always up for new challenges, Yakima Aerosport decided to do just that. They were already building the Super’ Turbo Cub and a Super Cub using the Dakota Cub slotted wing. It made a big improvement in the STOL performance of the Super Cub, so it was natural to assume that it would do the same for a “Super Breezy.”

Equipped with a 200HP fuel-injected engine, the Super Breezy boasts performance comparable to a Super Cub. Everyone who flies in it comes back to earth with a desire to own one and repeat the experience as many times as possible.

Building the STOL Super Breezy was no simple task, but the crew at Yakima Aerosport have years expertise building and abundant resources to take care of anything on your Super Cub. From owner-assisted maintenance to complete rebuilds, Yakima Aerosport is the Northwest’s premiere provider of Piper Supercub services.