Lancair Legacy

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Legacy
Lancair Legacy N550AW landing.jpg
Lancair Legacy RG
General information
Type Kit aircraft
National originUnited States
Manufacturer Lancair
Primary user Colombian Air Force
History
Developed from Lancair 320
Variants Lancair Barracuda
Lancair Legacy FG Lancair Legacy FG N550NL 01.JPG
Lancair Legacy FG
Legacy FG instrument panel Lancair Legacy FG N550NL 03 instrument panel.JPG
Legacy FG instrument panel
Legacy FG Lancair Legacy FG N550NL 04.JPG
Legacy FG
Lancair Super Legacy 550 Twin Turbo LancairSuperLegacy550.jpg
Lancair Super Legacy 550 Twin Turbo

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. [1] 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. [1] [2] [3]

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Design and development

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Race 66 Lancair Legacy

The Legacy features a cantilever low wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed or retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. [3] [4]

The aircraft is made from vacuum-formed composite sandwiches. Its 7.8 m (25.6 ft) span wing employs a Cole CG10 airfoil at the wing root and a Cole GC11 airfoil at the wingtip. The wing has an area of 7.6 m2 (82 sq ft) and mounts flaps. The aircraft can accept engines of 200 to 310 hp (149 to 231 kW). The standard engine used is the 310 hp (231 kW) Continental IO-550 but engines as small as the 200 hp (149 kW) Lycoming IO-360 four-stroke powerplant can be fitted. [3] [4] [5]

Four Lancair Legacy aircraft have won the Grand Champion Kit Built award at the EAA AirVenture airshow, in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016. [6] [7] [8] [9]

In May 2016, Lancair announced that the company was ending production of new Legacy aircraft kits due to the significant investments that would have been needed to continue manufacturing. The company sold the line in 2017 to Mark and Conrad Huffstutler, who now build the design as Lancair International, LLC, in Uvalde, Texas. [10] [11] [12]

Variants

Legacy RG 550 [13]
Retractable landing gear model [3]
Legacy FG 390 and FG 550
Turbine Lancair Legacy Turbine Lancair Legacy.jpg
Turbine Lancair Legacy
Fixed landing gear model with Lycoming IO-390 or IO-550 [3]
Legacy Turboprop
One example built with the project name "Turbulence" [14]
CIAC T-90 Calima
Licence-built by CIAC in Colombia for the Colombian Air Force [15]

Operators

In 2009 the Colombian Air Force ordered 25 modified Legacy FGs to be used as basic trainers. The aircraft feature 15% more wing area than the standard Legacy FG wing, leading-edge cuffs and a ventral fin to improve stability and low-speed handling along with a reshaped vertical tail and rudder. The aircraft are known as the Lancair Synergy and were delivered as kits for assembly in Colombia. The first Synergy was flown in September 2010. [15] [16] [17]

Specifications (Legacy RG)

Data from Lancair Legacy webpage [2]

General characteristics

Performance

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