From left: Clay Lacy, Bill Lear and Danny Kaye in the Lear Liner 40 mockup in 1965. Courtesy Clay Lacy Aviation Fifty years ago, on Aug. 12, 1966, the Lear Jet 25 made its maiden flight in Wichita, ...

The Learjet23 pioneered the concept of the business jet. Introduced in 1964, this fearsome plane was small, fast, efficient, and had excellent performance. Over 60 years later, Learjets are no longer ...

A Learjet will depart from Wichita this week as pilots try to fly to the South Pole, then the North Pole and back to Wichita in three days. The “Polar Mission,” more formally known as polar ...

The Wright Brothers first successfully flew a powered aircraft on December 17, 1903. Every year the First Flight Society celebrates that achievement with a morning ceremony at Wright Brothers ...

PWI, based in Wichita, announced the availability of its new PMA-approved LED cabin lighting system for Lear 60 and 60XR jets, modernizing the aircrafts’ high-voltage fluorescent light power supplies.

The families of two victims killed when an air ambulance exploded into a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the aircraft was dangerously old, poorly maintained, ...

A medical jet transporting a child who had just completed treatment for a life-threatening condition, her mother and four others crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a new expected flight return time of Monday, around 2:30 p.m. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Learjet 36A that took off from Wichita Wednesday evening is ...

In 1984 Stanley Kurzet sold his business and invested the proceeds in a Lear jet and a timber farm in Oregon. He also owned other business and investment properties and a residence in California. On ...