For many years marketed as the fastest business jet in production, the Learjet was also the most well known and one of the best selling, with some 745 turbojet examples having been delivered in the 23, 24, 25, 28 and 29 series.
Following the success of the Neico Lancair series of kitplanes, Lance Neibauer designed a production certificated aircraft based on the four-seat Lancair ES and set up a separate company to build and market the new type.
For many years the Learjet was marketed as the fastest business jet in production. It was designed by William P Lear in Switzerland as the SAAC-23, being eventually produced in Wichita, Kansas, the prototype Model 23 flying for the first time on 7 October 1963.
The Legacy is one of a range of aircraft produced by Lancair, formerly known as Neico, for the kit-built market and is a high-performance private owners touring machine, being an up-dated variant of the Lancair 320.
The Skylark is an ultra-light aircraft developed by Mr Ronald Lang of Officer, VIC in the early 1980s. Mr Lang also designed and developed an engine known as the Skylark for use in his and other ultra-light aircraft.
For many years the Learjet was marketed as the fastest business jet in production, and more than 1,500 examples of a variety of models have been built.