The "Big" Learjet - The Learjet 60
Did someone say I wish that Bombardier had a private jet that had a large cabin and a range of 2,400 nautical miles and really good performance and still looked like a Learjet? Can you say, “Lear 60?” The biggest Lear before you get into the Challeger series of planes, the Lear 60 is the “big” Lear. It is head and shoulders above the competition (two dimensions that become increasingly important as you spend more and more time in business aircraft).
Features and Performance
Our Lear 60 aircraft provide passengers a spacious cabin, a CD/DVD/Airshow entertainment system, large galley and a fully enclosed lavatory. Seating up to 7 passengers with luggage, the Lear 60 is exceptionally quiet, thanks to its active, state-of-the-art cabin noise reduction system.
With its powerful (no kidding) Pratt and Whitney PW305 turbofan engines, the Lear 60 can climb to 43,000 feet in 14 minutes – even with 7 passengers and luggage. The service ceiling for the Lear 60 is 51,000 feet, well above the weather. Unless you’re flying over Oklahoma. In the spring. That’s when the Lear 60’s advanced avionics allow the Lear 60 to safely and serenely navigate around the weather the rare time it cannot surmount it. And the Lear 60 is thrifty with fuel, using fuel amounts comparable to much smaller business jets. A large external baggage compartment is perfect for baggage and politicians alike.
Design of components for the Lear 60 actually began in the 1960’s.The wing is similar to one designed for the Lear 28 (a Lear 25 mated to a new wing that included tip-sail style wingtips). In 1979, Learjet designed a new fuselage for this wing that became the Lear 55. The Lear 60 is the perfection of that aircraft.With state-of-the-art systems, engines, avionics and a four foot fuselage stretch, the Lear 60 was certificated in 1993.
