Just seven weeks later, in July 1964, the Learjet 23 was certified. Getty Images View of a Learjet 23, serial number 23-001 (N801L), as it takes off on its first flight, Wichita, Kansas, October 7 ...

In the early 1960s, the Learjet 23 created a revolution in business aviation. As the world’s first light regional jet, the 23 had a svelte military fuselage, wing-tip fuel tanks and a top speed ...

Continuing the 45 year development of the famous aircraft platform, the next-generation Learjet will be the first Bombardier Aerospace jet to feature an all-composite structure .

Much fuss was made over it on the occasion of the company’s 45th birthday in 2008 when the new, eight-seat Learjet 85 was announced.This latest aircraft is recognisably the successor to classic 23.

Learjet. For generations, the name has been synonymous with business jets, with more than 3,000 of the small private jet planes delivered since the first Learjet 23 flew in 1963. In an age when ...

In 1965, Sinatra, who had previously owned a 40-seat airliner and a Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris – a French military trainer used as a business jet – took delivery of a brand new Learjet 23.