Aircraft
Bombardier Provides Base for Learjet Restoration Project
New agreement will give the project a long-term home
Lear Jet 23-003 under restoration at Bombardier's Wichita campus
Lear Jet 23-003 is currently under restoration on the Bombardier campus in Wichita. A new agreement will keep the project in Building 14, the former Learjet delivery facility, through its completion. © Classic Lear Jet Foundation

Classic Lear Jet Foundation, the nonprofit group that is attempting to restore the first delivered Lear Jet 23 (S/N 23-003) to flight status in Wichita, has signed a long-term agreement with Bombardier that will provide shelter for the project.

23-003 was moved to Building 14, the former Learjet delivery hangar, in May 2023, and since then the organization has held several events and viewings of the aircraft there. The bulk of the light twinjet’s restoration is being done in a bay in Building 14, with the group’s latest progress update noting that the removal of the cockpit circuit breaker panels revealed a spaghetti bowl of unidentified wires, each of which will have to be marked before removal.