The nimble Lancair Legacy ZU-FCY

The story of the Lancair began in 1985 with the revolutionary Lancair 200, an aircraft so technically advanced that it is now part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) museum collection. The Lancair 200 revolutionised the flying experience, offering pilots outstanding performance, more freedom, increased satisfaction and better value than any other piston-engine general aviation aircraft at that time.

By Athol Franz

Never content to rest on their laurels, Lance Neibauer and the Lancair team continued to push the envelope of the world’s finest two-place experimental kit-built plane. The result was the Lancair 320/360, an aircraft so beautiful and unprecedented in design that it hung on display in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Swift, stable, tight and responsive, the Lancair 200’s evolutionary heir again shook up the general aviation industry. Some 15 years after the Lancair revolution began the history of unparalleled innovation and the heritage of record-setting performance continued with the Lancair Legacy. The successor to Lancair’s legendary two-place aircraft, the Legacy represents the culmination of more than a decade of research, testing and invaluable input from Lancair builders and pilots. Redesigned from the tail forward, this plane is larger, faster and easier to build.

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