This 1974 color promotional film for the Gates Learjet Corporation touts their luxury business-class private jet models 24D, 25B, 25C, 35 and 36, showing international takeoffs, landings, and chartered flights (TRT 19:10).

Engine start sequence: Battery switches are flipped on the pilot’s switch panel in a Learjet cockpit. Switches for strobe, anti-collision (beacon), and navigation lights. Red reflectors rotate. The starter/generator switch (0:11). A turbine in closeup. Engine RPM gauges. A hand grips the throttle. Ignition of a jet engine with flames. RPMs climb (0:22). Wide shot of a Learjet taking off from a runway. Aerial photography: A model 24D banking over coastal beaches and buildings of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Urban high-rise architecture and Sugarloaf Mountain. Wing trestle markings show registration stencilling (PT-DZU) (0:50). Title overlay zoom: “Learjet World” (1:15). A Learjet taxis on a runway, backlit by sun breaking through clouds (1:23). A Learjet 25C/XR owned by LG Electronics taxiing. A model 25B (N93C) taxiing at night. 24D (PT-DZU) taxiing, with “LIDER” on the rudder. A German-owned 24D, (D-CCAT) (1:43). One plane on a runway, another flying overhead (2:04). Takeoff from a rural runway, vanishing into clouds (2:21). Cockpit interior. An instrument panel shows an angle-of-attack indicator, an artificial horizon with slip ball and turn coordinator, the altimeter and tachometer. Pilot’s and passenger’s views of the sky (2:50). A parked 24D (N60GL) for “Elkhorn at Sun Valley,” an Idaho resort, and boarding passengers. Mountains and a Phillips 66 gas station in the background. Takeoff (3:28). A pilot’s thumb on a joystick. In the cabin, passengers look out windows. The American 25B (N93C) and smiling passengers (4:12). Landing viewed from a ground control tower. A Marshaller directs a parking Canadian 25C craft. 25B (N93C) taking off (5:00). A 24D in a field, a 25B taking off, and a 25C in the distance (5:33). A wingtip fuel tank (tip tank) among the clouds (5:47). A distant Learjet flies over mountains near Rio de Janeiro (6:04). A distant jet makes a smooth landing, with wing flaps visible (6:38). Loading cargo onto a Learjet 24 at night (7:04). A 25B, (N360AA), with an emergency exit hatch over the copilot’s seat (7:36). A body on a stretcher is carried and loaded into a Swiss Air Ambulance (HB-VCY). Takeoff from a wet runway (7:58). The photogrammetry capabilities of a Learjet. Title: “Actual Photograph of Wichita, Kansas.” A 25C (N3816G) (8:45). NASA engineers mount equipment inside a Learjet (N365EJ). Takeoff in front of a large airport hangar. A 25B (N7GA) landing with thrust reversers (9:15). A 25C (N263GL) landing with a drag chute (10:17). An upholstered “24 inch executive door” unfolding for deplaning (10:26). Women read a map aboard a Learjet. A Jet Aviation hangar. The Swiss Air Ambulance loading and taking off from different angles (10:55). A newly introduced Learjet 35 (N731GA) taxis and takes off (11:28). Engineers in sunglasses and ties smile. The model 35 in flight (12:14). Above the clouds (13:37). A globe illustrates intercontinental air travel (13:50). A prototype model 36 (N731GA) in flight and superimposed over the globe (14:26). Titles show takeoff weights (15:21). Watercolor proof of concept art. Shots of cabin furniture: Upholstered seats, luggage compartments, overhead panels, double windows, restroom sinks and toilets (15:30). Cockpit legroom and folding seats. The model 35 instrument panel, throttle, and drag chute release, inertial navigation systems, circuit breaker panels (16:16). Demonstration of spoilerons (17:21). A CRT monitor shows wing testing footage (17:34). Summing up (17:51). A contrail. End titles: Narration by Dave McElhatton, Produced by J. Douglas Allen (18:52).

Learjet is an American aerospace manufacturer of business jets for military and civilian use. The 35/36 models featured in this film were FAA certified in 1974. The company was founded in the 1950’s by William Powell Lear and became Gates Learjet Corporation in 1969. It later became a subsidiary of Canadian Bombardier Aerospace in 1990. The end of the Learjet production line was announced in February 2021.

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