While the Evolution benefits from the long history of Lancair, several things differentiate the airplane from its predecessors. The benign stall characteristics have enabled the Evo to keep a clean accident record with at least 34 airplanes flying to date.
The Evolution not only provides great speed - as fast as 300 knots at max cruise - it also has a wide flight envelope with a 61-knot stall speed, which is the FAA-mandated number for certificated single-engine airplanes. The Evolution brings a sleek carbon fiber airframe, benign stall characteristics, advanced systems and a powerful Pratt & Whitney engine providing reliability and performance. The Lancair Evolution is a four-seat, all-composite, pressurized, high-performance, single-engine, turboprop-powered airplane. And while the Evolution is the first Lancair designed without the company’s founder, Lance Neibauer, his tradition of producing fast-flying pieces of art continues. With the Evolution, Lancair has incorporated Part 23 certification procedures into its successful kit business to produce predictable airplanes with the superb performance numbers Lancair customers have become accustomed to. But for a company like Redmond, Oregon-based Lancair International, which has decades of experience producing complex airplane kits, the concept makes total sense. You may think an airplane as complex as the Evolution doesn’t belong in the amateur-built world.
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