Methinks something is a tad off here.
A Piper Cub is a high wing tricycle/fixed gear airplane. You lose a wheel, you don’t get to belly-skid upon landing. You get to risk a ground loop however. Your landing speed with flaps is gonna be around 40-45 KIAS, and you might get it down to 25-30 at touchdown. So while a groundlooped landing would be REALLY EXCITING, you and the aircraft would both likely be re-usable. Maybe some new fabric, paint, wheel axle/hub AND a sign-off. Maybe...
Also a Piper Cub is REALLY slow, if forgiving and gentle to fly. A cross-country flight would take a long time. A really long time.
I think it just might have been a DIFFERENT Piper aircraft. Maybe an Archer. Dunno.
A piper cub is not a tricycle gear airplane, it’s a tail dragger.
Yup. My thought as well when I got to that line (’off’).
Eh. Into the bin...
You are exactly right.
17-Year-Old Flies Again After Crash Landing During First Solo Flight
Conventional landing gear.
The FAA also says the registration on that airframe expired this past February. So unless they Feds have been slow updating their registry database, somebody's got some splainin' to do.
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberInquiry
And for those who've never had their shirttail cut off, ...
Cub is tail dragger. I had a PA 22 which was tricycle landing gear.