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Lancair Evolution

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Lancair Evolution is a high-performance, four-seat, pressurized turboprop aircraft offered as an amateur-built kit, known for its superb speed (up to 300 knots) and docile low-speed handling.
  • Despite being an amateur-built kit, Lancair applies Part 23 certification procedures, rigorous quality control, and significant factory assistance to ensure a predictable, high-quality, and safe final product for the owner-builder.
  • This unique kit model allows for extensive customization at a previously unattainable price point, while Lancair continuously evolves the design and provides support to address areas like insurance and performance.
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You may think an airplane as complex as the Evolution doesn’t belong in the amateur-built world. But for a company like Redmond, Oregon-based Lancair International, which has decades of experience producing complex airplane kits, the concept makes total sense. With the Evolution, Lancair has incorporated Part 23 certification procedures into its successful kit business to produce predictable airplanes with the superb performance numbers Lancair customers have become accustomed to. And while the Evolution is the first Lancair designed without the company’s founder, Lance Neibauer, his tradition of producing fast-flying pieces of art continues.

The Lancair Evolution is a four-seat, all-composite, pressurized, high-performance, single-engine, turboprop-powered airplane. The Evolution brings a sleek carbon fiber airframe, benign stall characteristics, advanced systems and a powerful Pratt & Whitney engine providing reliability and performance.

Pia Bergqvist

Pia Bergqvist joined FLYING in December 2010. A passionate aviator, Pia started flying in 1999 and quickly obtained her single- and multi-engine commercial, instrument and instructor ratings. After a decade of working in general aviation, Pia has accumulated almost 3,000 hours of flight time in nearly 40 different types of aircraft.

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