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Learjet Employees Celebrate 50 Years of Flight
Learjet employees brought their families to the event for an up-close-and-personal look at the fruits of their labors.
Learjet employees brought their families to the event for an up-close-and-personal look at the fruits of their labors.

The 50th anniversary of the first flight of the first Learjet, the Model 23, on Oct. 7, 1963, begged to be celebrated and Bombardier obliged with gusto, holding two events at the company’s main assembly facility in Wichita on October 4 and 5 and inviting current and former employees and their families, a few special guests and owners and operators who brought examples of almost every Learjet production model. Only the Learjet 55 was absent, as the aircraft planned for the celebration could not make it at the last minute.