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what is it?
The Learjet 28 is an American eight-to-ten-seat (two crew and six to eight passengers), twin-engine, high-speed business jet, intended to be the successor to the Learjet 25. The Learjet 29 is identical except for the addition of a long-range fuel tank, resulting in the reduction of the capacity to six (two crew and four passengers). Both were manufactured by Learjet and were marketed under the Longhorn name.
How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · 13.4 m wingspan
base stats
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 49 years ago, in 1977.
- Top speed is 6.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 13.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.8× 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
- 1977-08-24
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- role
- business jet
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- makers
- Learjet
- engines
- 2× General Electric CJ-610-8A
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 8
- length
- 14.5 m
- wingspan
- 13.4 m
- height
- 3.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 6,804 kg
- top speed
- 883 km/h
- cruise speed
- 756 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 15,545 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q164440, Wikipedia: Learjet 28 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.