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A camera-equipped Learjet 35 was used to film some of the aerial sequences for the 1980 film The Final Countdown. The Learjet 35 also appeared in the movies Between the Lines (Ep. 3.05, 1994), A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV Movie), Free Fall (1999), Prison Break (season 4) (Ep. 4.18, 2008), The Bourne Legacy, Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and many ...
Learjet was a manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use based in Wichita, Kansas, United States.Founded in the late 1950s by William Powell Lear as Swiss American Aviation Corporation, it became a subsidiary of Canadian Bombardier Aerospace in 1990, which marketed the company’s aircraft as the "Bombardier Learjet Family".
The projected (in green) and actual (in red) ground track of N47BA from departure in Orlando to Dallas and to crash site in South Dakota. On October 25, 1999, a Learjet 35, registration N47BA, [7] operated by Sunjet Aviation of Sanford, Florida, departed Orlando Sanford International Airport (IATA: SFB, ICAO: KSFB) at 13:19 UTC (09:19 EDT) on a two-day, five-flight trip.
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The first officer was 26-year-old Josué Buendía Moreno, who also held a commercial pilot license from the DGAC as well as a private pilot license from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In addition, he was far less experienced than captain Galván having logged only 206 flight hours, with just 29 of them on the Learjet 35.
As the business jet neared the inbound course to the VOR, the captain called out the outer marker. The first officer agreed, and the captain stated that they could descend to 2,300 ft. Shortly thereafter, the first officer stated that he was descending the aircraft to 2,300 ft. Three seconds later, the Learjet impacted trees, then terrain.
The -5 model was certified in 1982, and a decade later, an engine utilizing the TFE731-5 power section and a TFE731-3 fan was built and designated the TFE731-4, intended to power the Cessna Citation VII aircraft. [4] The most recent version is the TFE731-50, based on the -60 used on the Falcon 900DX, which underwent its flight test program in ...
A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II in flight. Operations of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II family began in 1995 with the Joint Strike Fighter program.Since its first flight in 2006, the aircraft has faced substantial controversy, shortages in its research and development supply, [1] and safety concerns due to incidents. [2]