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The Lancair Evolution: An Evolving Standard Of High Performance

When Lancair began transforming the high-performance experimental aircraft world with its composite kits in the 1980s, who knew its advances would reverberate all the way into the backcountry?

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Evolution Of An Original

About a decade ago, I was hired to fly an Aerostar 700 from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to London, U.K., with Captain Mike Miller, chief pilot for Cathay Pacific Airways.

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By Bill Cox, Photography by James Lawrence

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2010 LANCAIR EVOLUTION Base Price: $750,000 Engine make/model: Lycoming TEO-540-AE2A Horsepower 400 Propeller type: CS Fuel Type: 100/100LL Landing Gear Type: Tri./Retr. Max Takeoff Weight … Read More

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Lancair Evolution

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By Jessica Ambats

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Lancair Evolution: Revolutionary Homebuilt

When I flew my first homebuilt in 1973, a VariViggen with designer Burt Rutan in the second seat, the whole point of homebuilt airplanes was innovation with economy.

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By Bill Cox, Photography by Jessica Ambats

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2009 Lancair Evolution

2009 LANCAIR EVOLUTION Approximate total price: $980,000 Engine: Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A Shaft Horsepower: 750 (flat rating) Propeller type: Sensenich Gross weight (lbs.): 4300 Useful Load, … Read More

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Lancair 1994 IVP

Lancair 1994 IVP Engine make/model: Cont. TSIO-550B1B Horsepower: 350 TBO hrs.: 1600 Propeller: Const. spd. Landing gear type: Tri/Retr. Gross weight (lbs.): 3200 Empty weight, … Read More

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Lancair 1998 Columbia 300

Lancair 1998 Columbia 300 Engine make/model: Cont. IO-550-N1B Horsepower: 310 TBO hrs.: 2000 Propeller: Const. spd. Landing gear type: Tri/Fixed Gross weight (lbs.): 3400 Empty … Read More

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Columbia 400

Columbia 400 Base/used Price: $349,000 Engine make/model: Continental TSIO-550-N1B Horsepower@rpm@altitude: 310@2600@SL to 25,000 ft. Horsepower for takeoff: 310 TBO hrs.: 2000 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller … Read More

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From Lancair 200 To Columbia 400

There aren’t many folks in the personal aircraft business brave enough (or perhaps foolish enough) to attempt certification on a homebuilt airplane. Curtiss Pitts may have been one of the few to do it with his S1 and S2 Pitts, and that was in a far simpler time.