Few aircraft, in any category, carry a legacy that rivals the Learjet 23. It didn’t just introduce a new airplane, it introduced the world to a whole new form of aviation. When the first one rolled out of Wichita in 1964, nobody could have predicted that six decades later, people would still call any small […]

Long before Bill Lear’s Learjet became the generic word for a private jet, there was a four-engine Lockheed with a shape unlike anything else in the sky. The JetStar first flew in 1957, six years before the Learjet 23, and it has a real claim to being the first true business jet ever built, purpose-designed […]