{"id":140334,"date":"2024-10-15T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/learjet-23-guide-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:00:12","slug":"the-first-purpose-built-private-jet-the-learjet-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=140334","title":{"rendered":"The First Purpose-Built Private Jet: The Learjet 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people often consider Learjet to be the first aircraft manufacturer to produce a purpose-built <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/business-jet\" >business jet<\/a>. Learjet was founded by Bill Lear in the late 1950s. Lear noticed that a Swiss ground-attack fighter, the FFA P-16, was a great starting point for an aircraft that could be converted into a luxurious private jet. Because of this, Lear traveled to Altenrhein, Switzerland, and founded the Swiss American Aircraft Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many consider the Learjet 23 to be the first private jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,1031,416,437,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-learjet","category-private-aviation","category-private-jet","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140335,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140334\/revisions\/140335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}