Learjet 24

what is it?

The Learjet 24 is an American six-to-eight-seat (two crew and four to six passengers) twin-engine, high-speed business jet, which was manufactured by Learjet as the successor to the Learjet 23.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 10.9 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 877 km/htop speed
• seats 6passengers
• size 6,124 kgmax take-off weight
• built 258made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 60 years ago, in 1966.
• 🏎️Top speed is 6.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10.9 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.6× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1966-02-24

introduced

1966

status

still flying

number built

258

role

business jet

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Learjet

engines

2× General Electric CJ610-6

passengers

6

length

13.2 m

wingspan

10.9 m

height

3.7 m

max take-off weight

6,124 kg

top speed

877 km/h

cruise speed

774 km/h

range

—

ceiling

13,716 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.