This will be the final year of production for the Learjet. But the aircraft’s profound, transformative legacy is something creator William Powell “Bill” Lear and its current brand custodian ...

The end of the Learjet production lines brings the Learjet 75 model to a close, along with the cessation of the Learjet 85 program. [Bombardier] The final Learjet has been delivered. Since 1990 ...

Bombardier only delivered 11 Learjets last year, as other companies crowded Learjet out of a market that its founder, Bill Lear, created: the corporate jet. "The Learjet brought the business jet ...

But the 60 XR is the final refinement of the “real” Learjet. Bill Lear had a greater imagination than anybody, but I doubt even he could have envisioned what his little rocket Lear Jet 23 has ...

A high-school dropout named Bill Lear was the mastermind behind an aircraft that flew the world’s wealthiest people, writes Jonathan Glancey. “Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away ...

As the unofficial historian of Learjet, Dick Kovich admits he’s “actually done dumpster diving” to save items related to the iconic brand. That’s why he and other former Learjet employees ...

The pilots walked away but the plane had to be scrapped. Courtesy photo Learjet founder Bill Lear in front of seven of his Learjets in early 1965. Courtesy photo Johnny Carson sits at Learjet ...

bringing roughly 60 years of Learjet history to an end. Lear Jet 23-003 has historical significance. “Business aviation was alive and well in 1962 to 1964 when Bill Lear first came to town and ...

A flight captain on the crew said that it’s the first-ever Learjet to make this journey. Brenda Lear, the widow of Bill Lear Jr., the son of Learjet’s founder, was in attendance. She became ...

Courtesy photo He said Learjet founder Bill Lear brought two concepts together in a new way: jet propulsion, which the airline industry started using in the late 1950s, and smaller business planes.