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Lancair
Lancair International, Inc. (pronounced ‘lance-air’) is a leading manufacturer of general aviation aircraft kits. The company is located in Redmond, Oregon USA. The company was founded by Lance Neibauer in 1981 as a producer of composite homebuilt aircraft kits. In March, 2003, Lance Neibauer sold the kit company to Joseph Bartels, a Louisiana attorney and Lancair IV-P builder and owner. The new owner continues to sell the kits that have proven themselves with hundreds sold and thousands of flight hours logged. Mr. Bartels has also continued the tradition of innovative development and design with the introduction of the new Lancair Evolution which was unveiled at Sun-n-Fun [1] on April 8, 2008.
Early on, as the designs proved highly popular, Lancair was encouraged by NASA and others to produce FAA-certified aircraft. Lance Neibauer started a new and completely autonomous company, known by many as "The Lancair Company," to design and develop the certified aircraft production line. The Lancair Company evolved from several entities starting with Pacific Aviation Composites USA, LLC[2] which was formed on April 3, 1995. The Lancair Company[3] was formed as a separate entity on April 7, 2000 and Pacific Aviation Composites USA, LLC was merged into The Lancair Company on May 4, 2000.[4] The Lancair Company continued to develop and manufacture certified aircraft and eventually changed its name to Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation on July 15, 2005.[5] Following its entry into bankruptcy Columbia Aircraft was sold to Cessna in November 2007.[6][7]
Lancair designs are performance-oriented; they cruise at high speeds on a moderate amount of power. The Lancair IV-P Lancair ES-P and Propjet are, unusual for homebuilt aircraft, equipped with cabin pressurization. The earlier Lancair designs such as the Lancair 235 / Lancair 320 / Lancair 360 series have unusually attractive lines, even appearing in a 1995 exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Along with the Glasair series, the early Lancair designs were among the first kitplanes to bring modern molded composites construction to light aircraft.
Columbia Aircraft's production designs incorporated many of the innovative Lancair design elements popular in the kits, including side-mounted control sticks and a glass cockpit.
Lancair kits
- Lancer 200 2-seat prototype of 1984 using a Continental 0-200 engine
- Lancair 200 2-seat kit released 1985 using a Continental 0-200 engine
- Lancair 235 2-seat kit released 1986, and powered by a Lycoming O-235 engine
- Lancair 320 2-seat kit released 1988, and powered by a Lycoming O-320 engine
- Lancair 360 Same airframe as the Lancair 320, but with a Lycoming O-360 engine
- Lancair ES
- Lancair IV
- Lancair IV-P
- Lancair Legacy
- Lancair Propjet
- Lancair Sentry
- Lancair Evolution
References
- ↑ http://www.sun-n-fun.org/content/
- ↑ http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=321021&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE
- ↑ http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=699880&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE
- ↑ http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=699880&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE
- ↑ http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detl?p_be_rsn=699880&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE
- ↑ Textron (November 2007). Textron's Cessna Aircraft Company to Acquire Assets of Columbia Aircraft. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
- ↑ Russ Niles (November 27, 2007). Cessna Gets Columbia. Retrieved on 2007-11-29.
External links
- Lancair Website
- EAA Chapter 1000 - Lancair handling qualities
- Columbia Aircraft website
- Cafe Foundation Reports Including Some of the Lancair Kit Aircraft Models
- Article about Lancair's first aircraft
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