Lancair Legacy (RG / FG / 2000)
These figures describe a typical build. Each aircraft of this design was built by its owner, and the one you are looking at may differ.
The Lancair Legacy is the 1999 successor to the Lancair 320/360: a two-seat composite retractable (or fixed-gear FG) with a 25.5 ft wing of 82.5 sq ft, built around a 310 hp Continental IO-550 or a Lycoming IO-540. Lancair's brochure quotes 276 mph at 8,000 ft on 13.5-15 gph, 1,150 miles with reserve, 2,000 fpm at gross and a 65 mph stall, with 700 lb useful on 2,200 lb.
It is one of the fastest two-seat pistons ever sold and it carries the Lancair reputation with it: a 23 lb/sq ft wing loading, approach speeds over 90 knots, light controls and a history that made insurers demand real transition training and high-performance retractable time before they will quote. The IO-550 costs what a 310 hp six costs to overhaul and feed, the retractable gear has its own inspection regime, and the FG gives up 60 mph to avoid it. Each Legacy is a builder's work in composite, with the engine, propeller, panel and layup quality varying between examples, so the aircraft's own weight-and-balance, its builder log and an inspector who knows Lancairs matter more than the brochure column reproduced here. Condition inspections need an A&P, not an IA. The one current asking price read, $350,000 for an award-winning example, is not a band.
Variants of the Lancair Legacy
- Legacy (RG / FG / 2000) · 1999 · 160 active · this page
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What it is
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Landing gear | tricycle |
| Engines | — |
| Engine | Continental IO-550 (310 hp; Lycoming IO-540 also offered) |
| Horsepower | 310 hp |
| Fuel | — |
| Certification basis | amateur-built |
| Production start | 1999 |
| Production end | — |
| Endorsements required | — |
Performance
| Cruise speed | 240 KTAS |
|---|---|
| Range | 999 nm |
| Service ceiling | — |
| Climb rate | 2,000 ft/min |
| Stall speed (Vso) | 56 KCAS |
| Takeoff over 50 ft | — |
| Landing over 50 ft | — |
Load and fuel
| Seats | 2 |
|---|---|
| Useful load | 700 lb |
| Full-fuel payload | — |
| Max takeoff weight | 2,200 lb |
| Empty weight | 1,500 lb |
| Usable fuel | 65 gal |
| Fuel burn at cruise | 14 gal/h |
Cost of ownership
| Price, low | — |
|---|---|
| Price, high | — |
| Prices as of | — |
| Engine TBO | — |
| Overhaul cost, low | — |
| Overhaul cost, high | — |
The fleet and its record
| Registered, all time | 209 |
|---|---|
| Active fleet | 160 |
| Median year built | 2007 |
| NTSB events, last 10 years | 11 |
| Fatal events, last 10 years | 5 |
| Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years | 68.751 |
| Personal-flying events per 1,000 active | 502 |
| Ownership transfers, last 24 months | 32 |
| Transfers per 100 active | 203 |
| Airworthiness directives | 10 |
| Directives, last 5 years | 0 |
| Rate confidence | ok |
- Events per 1,000 active, last 10 years: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 160 active.
- Personal-flying events per 1,000 active: per 1,000 active aircraft · base 160 active.
- Transfers per 100 active: per 100 active aircraft · base 160 active.
Peer scores6
| Peer class | Fixed wing single-engine, piston, 1 engine, 1-2 seats |
|---|---|
| Accident record | 3.1 of 101 |
| Severity | 0.9 of 102 |
| Access | 4.4 of 103 |
| Support | 7.4 of 104 |
| Liquidity | 5 of 105 |
| Overall (sum of the categories shown) | 20.8 out of 506 |
- Accident record: class median 36.69 · 321 models in class.
- Severity: class median 13.04.
- Access: class median 1,000.
- Support: class median 77.5.
- Liquidity: class median 20.
- Each of the five categories places the model within its peer class, from 0 (the worst of the class) to 10 (the best): a position among comparable models, not a grade. The overall score is the sum of the categories shown that are scored, out of 10 for each (50 when all five are); it is given only when at least 4 of the five are scored, and it can be set against another model's only when both are in the same peer class and scored on the same categories. When accident record and severity cannot be scored because the model has too few records, the other three give a partial score out of 30, labelled as such; it is never set against a full score.
Data as of: FAA registry Sep 28 · NTSB Oct 2 · ADs Oct 7 · scores Sep 30