Lancair Legacy

what is it?

The Lancair Legacy, a modernized version of the Lancair 320, is a low-wing two-place retractable-gear composite monoplane manufactured by the American company Lancair. It is available as a kit that cost US$71,500 in 2011. There is also a fixed-gear version, the Legacy FG. The retractable version of the Legacy cruises at 276 mph at 8,000 ft and the fixed gear version cruises at 215 mph.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 475 km/htop speed
• size 998 kgmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 3.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

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number built

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role

aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Lancair

engines

1× Continental IO-550-N

length

6.7 m

wingspan

7.8 m

max take-off weight

998 kg

top speed

475 km/h

cruise speed

444 km/h

range

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ceiling

5,486 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.