The LearJet Turns 50 — But It Almost Didn’t Make It Off the Ground

The LearJet Turns 50 Fifty years ago today, Bill Lear stood on a runway and watched his life savings lift off from an airport in Wichita, Kansas. He was 61, and had amassed a fortune in the consumer electronics age. But the jet age was upon us, and the serial entrepreneur saw a chance to…

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