WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal, in coordination with the Army Fixed Wing Project Office, awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to Bombardier Defense (Learjet, Inc ...

Earlier in December 2023, the US Army had awarded a firm-fixed-price contract to Bombardier Defense (Learjet, Inc.) to procure a Global 6500 jet aircraft for the HADES program.

In 1963, the first Learjet 23 rolled out of the company’s manufacturing plant in Wichita, and on March 28, the last, a Learjet 75, emerged from that same facility in Kansas. On Wednesday ...

The Learjet 23, owned by Wichita, Kansas-based Classic Lear Jet Foundation, was the third of its kind to be manufactured and the first to be delivered to a customer. It was built in 1964 ...

Learjet does all of its own interior completions in Wichita. The Lear 45XR is equipped with a four-screen Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics suite, with TCAS and EGPWS. The system is very intuitive ...

The iconic jet was among the first private luxury planes. William Lear based his design in part on military jets. The first Learjet flew in 1963, and more than 3,000 had been built since.