Lancair first started manufacturing aircraft in 1984, building kit planes that had to be made up by the buyer. The company won several prizes for its innovative aircraft, and founder Lance Neibauer was given an award by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). All of Lancair’s kit planes were classified as Experimental Aircraft by the FAA, …
Cessna 208 Caravan and Daher Kodiak 100 Compared: Which Is Better? Introduction The Cessna 208 Caravan and the Daher Kodiak 100 are very similar aircraft and have long been in competition with and therefore compared to one another. So what are the differences? Why do some operators choose to fly the Cessna Caravan over the …
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The Cessna Citation M2 is a light business jet, which has been manufactured by Cessna since 2011 and is still in production. It was based on an earlier Citation, the Model 525 CitationJet or CJ1, which was first launched in 1989. This had been developed due to the increasing prices of the engines that were …
Since its introduction in 1965, the Cessna 337 Skymaster, a general aviation classic with a unique multi-engine design, has served its owners. The Cessna Model 337 was originally nicknamed the Super Skymaster since it was an enhanced version of the Model 336. Still, Cessna eventually omitted the “Super” from the name and renamed it the …
Introduction The Cessna 441, known as the Conquest II, is a turboprop aircraft. As such, it was specifically designed to bridge the gap between Cessna’s well-known piston engine aircraft and their increasingly successful jet aircraft. It was actually the first turboprop airplane that Cessna made and was developed in 1974, with the first aircraft being …
Introduction In 2007, the Piper Matrix (PA-46R-350T) was unveiled as an unpressurized variation of the Piper Meridian Mirage, which later became the M350. Piper presented the Piper Matrix as a low-cost alternative to the pressurized Mirage. It is a six-seater, low-wing, unpressurized single piston-engine airplane. I remember thinking to myself when I first heard about …
Introduction The Cessna 400 is part of an honorable lineage of low-wing, high-performance single-engine aircraft that became iconic as Cessna’s foray into 21st-century plane design. The origins of this aircraft can be traced back to the LC40-550FG – short for Lancair Certified Model 40 Continental 550 Engine Fixed Gear. Late into its development, this mouthful …
Introduction The Cessna 207, along with the 205 and 206, together form a related group of single-engine general aviation aircraft; the three of these types have fixed landing gear and were originally developed from the popular Cessna 210. They have all been used commercially as well as by private pilots. They differ from the more …
Designed by Lance Neibauer- founder of the United States Lancair aviation company (pronounced LANSE-air), the Lancair 235 is an easy-to-fly, two-seated light aircraft. In 1981, Neibauer founded his company as a producer of amateur-built airplane kits. Neibauer first produced the Lancair 200 in December of 1984, after working earlier with Al Meyers to produce his …
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When comparing the Cessna 182 to the 185, it’s worth understanding the genesis of both designs in the venerable and much loved Cessna 180. Introduced in 1952 as a four-seat conventional landing gear aircraft, the Cessna 180 was initially powered by the 225 hp Continental O-470 series engine, upgraded to 230 hp four years later. …
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