It features a strut-braced high-wing, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-tandem accessed by doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

[5] In July 2015 CubCrafters sold the type certificate for the CC18 to the Liaoning Cub Aircraft Corporation of China.

Cub Crafters then licensed the design back so they could produce the aircraft for the non-Chinese market.

The Liaoning Cub Aircraft Corporation plans to produce the design in China for flight training, aerial photography, mapping, agriculture and personal use.

"[1] By February 2017, 74 examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and three with Transport Canada.