Learjet to end production

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Learjet to end production

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Re: Learjet to end production

Post by granch » Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:18 am

Sad news. Bill Lear had an agreement during the 50th with the swiss Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein company to build a fighter and ground attack jet plane, the FFA P-16. But 2 prototypes crashed and the swiss government and air force decided to buy the Hawker Hunter. Lear saved the project to the USA and made the Learjet 23, first real bizjet... A predecessor could though be the 1st that entered in production, the Morane-Saulnier MS-760 Paris, also derivated from a military jet trainer airplane, with a similar configuration to the Cessna c-37 Tweet that gave the Dragonfly.

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