Jeff, etal,
Here is a list/count of the number of
Lancairs with airworthiness certificates based on the FAA registration DB (as
of this past Sept).
As you may know, the data there is pretty
messy (inconsistent coding) so a lot of intelligence was build into my “best
efforts” extract query to attempt to get quasi-accurate data.
- The count is from the FAA DB and so only
includes US aircraft.
- The count only includes aircraft that have
any Lancair “like” wording in the FAA make,model,description,etc
(i.e 4, 4P, 4-P, L4, L4P, L4-P, IV, IVP, IV-P, LIV, LIVP, LIV-P, Lancair,
etc)
- The search was pretty inclusive, I then
manually reviewed/sifted/tagged them.
- The count only includes N-numbers that
have AW certs – it does not include n-numbers that are reserved but have not
yet been granted an AW cert
- There are probably a few aircraft with
AW certs that never flew (for whatever reason) – but this is likely very small.
- The count includes N-numbers for planes
that have been destroyed – unless the n-number was reassigned (then they
are excluded)
- I’m a little uncertain about how de-registered
planes appear in the FAA DB, there are approx 100 Lancairs (various models) without
n-numbers??? (those are not included below)
I have never attempted to verify the
counts. Perhaps KimL or someone at Lancair can validate it.
Despite my efforts, I’m sure I’ve
missed some.
|
CountbyType
|
|
Code .
|
DESCRIPTION
.
|
CountOfN-NUMBER .
|
|
20
|
200
|
6
|
|
21
|
210
|
1
|
|
23
|
235
|
89
|
|
29
|
290
|
1
|
|
32
|
320
|
192
|
|
36
|
360
|
117
|
|
E
|
ES
|
79
|
|
4
|
IV
|
80
|
|
4P
|
IV-P
|
180
|
|
4T
|
IV-T
|
31
|
|
L
|
LEGACY
|
105
|
|
T
|
TIGRESS
|
1
|
FYI, the total is 882
Given that my best efforts query has still
missed some, I’d guess we’re in the 900’s somewhere overall.
Given that some (50-100???) are overseas
the “global” number is probably somewhere over 1000.
Given that 100’ish have been (seemed
to have been) de-registered (no current n-number) perhaps this makes the “over
1000” even more likely.
If this is right, the 1000’th Lancair
flying probably happened sometime recently (last year or so)
Would be nice to figure out who that was
and have a party!
Perhaps I’m, way off ???
Rick Titsworth
ES – back to work.
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11:39 PM
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Subject: [LML] Re: Lancair down in
Georgia
In a message dated 11/14/2006 9:29:58 PM
Central Standard Time, rienk.ayers@sreyaaviation.com writes:
what percentages are those of the flying
fleet (of each type)? That would give another perspective on the accident
rates.
I do not have any fleet numbers. Checking
flightaware.com a few months ago yielded some interesting information. Many of
the IVPs I was looking at have no flight history. Are the owners parking their
airplanes. It would be interesting to post a survey online here and find out
answers to these questions and more.
How many of you have a flying Lancair?
How many hours a year do you fly it?
How many hours do you have make and
model? (about 500 hours is a break point in accident statistics)
Do you take recurrent training? how
often? with whom? in a Lancair?
I will work on it and get back to you.