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Museum’s New Online Collection Reveals a Lifetime of Innovation by Aviation Icon Bill Lear

June 28, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Museum of Flight Collections Department recently completed a project to catalog and digitize the world’s most comprehensive collection of materials documenting the careers of inventor/entrepreneur Bill Lear and his wife Moya Olsen Lear. And […]

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Learjet

October 7, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 7, 1963, the first of two Learjet 23 prototypes, made its first flight at Wichita, Kansas, with test pilots Henry Grady (“Hank”) Beaird, Jr., […]

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Museum’s New Online Collection Reveals a Lifetime of Innovation by Aviation Icon Bill Lear

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Learjet

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