The Cessna 400 Corvalis is a single-engine, fixed-gear, low-wing general aviation aircraft

Aircraft

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 built from composite material

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Cessna

The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also produce business jets. The company is a subsidiary...

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The Cessna 400 was originally built by Columbia Aircraft

Columbia Aircraft

The Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer that designed and built light general aviation aircraft. In November 2007 it became a division of Cessna.-History:...

 as the Columbia 400.
The Cessna 400 was derived from the normally aspirated Columbia 300 which was itself derived from the Lancair ES

Lancair ES

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 kit aircraft

Homebuilt aircraft

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The 400 is powered by a turbocharged Continental TSIO-550-C

Continental IO-550

The Continental IO-550 engine is a large family of fuel injected six-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled aircraft engines that were developed for use in light aircraft by Teledyne Continental Motors...

 engine producing 310 horsepower (230 kW) at 2600 rpm.