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The Lancair Legacy, a modernized version of the Lancair 320, is a low-wing two-place Landing gear composite monoplane manufactured by the American company Lancair. It is available as a kit that cost US$71,500 in 2011.Vandermeullen, Richard: 2011 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, p. 58. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851 There is also a fixed-gear version, the Legacy FG. The retractable version of the Legacy cruises at 276 mph at 8,000 ft and the fixed gear version cruises at 215 mph.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, p. 107. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
The aircraft is made from vacuum-formed composite sandwiches. Its span wing employs a Cole CG10 airfoil at the wing root and a Cole GC11 airfoil at the wingtip. The wing has an area of and mounts flaps. The aircraft can accept engines of . The standard engine used is the Continental IO-550 but engines as small as the Lycoming IO-360 four-stroke powerplant can be fitted.
Four Lancair Legacy aircraft have won the Grand Champion Kit Built award at the EAA AirVenture airshow, in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016.
In May 2016, Lancair announced that the company was ending production of new Legacy aircraft kits due to the significant investments that would have been needed to continue manufacturing. The company sold the line in 2017 to Mark and Conrad Huffstutler, who now build the design as Lancair International, LLC, in Uvalde, Texas.
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