A Dash 8-100/200 at Flaps 35 & max reverse (and standing on the brakes), will stop impressively short.

86 KIAS (at light landing weight.......26K lbs).

I think I remember the fuel burns on the Lears I flew:

Lear 23 and 24, 1st , 2nd, and 3rd hour burns : 2,000 lbs, 1400, and 1200

Lear 35 : 1400, 1200, 1100

After seeing the "low fuel" lights flashing on the 20 series too many times, I convinced the boss to buy a 35. We had our own 10,000 gallon Jet A tank at the ranch where we kept the Lears. Always taxied out on one engine in the 20 series. Always burned more fuel coming out of Long Beach because we could never get an unrestricted climb to 450.

IIRC those fuel burns seem right on the money (a lot of water under the bridge since I flew them). If IIRC again, we burned the same FF at idle on the ground as in flight at 410 in the 20 series. Coming into KVNY from the east we needed 2000 lbs crossing the Colorado River to make VNY with any reserves.
Low fuel lights were I think 650 lbs per side.
I started fueling Lears when the first one showed up at Pacific Lear Jet (Allen Paulson later of Gulfstream fame and Clay Lacy) when it opened on the east side of the airport in "the jungle". I was in HS then. I have it on good authority that the 20s rolled very nice. :-)
In those days we even resold surplus JP-4 for 10 cents a gallon.
Clay would demo the Lear by landing on the short (4000') runway.
Years later I had to put a 25 down on the same runway at night because the big one was closed for repairs. Small world.

I can verify.......

Yes, small world. We operated the boss's Lear 24 from a 3500 foot dirt strip on his ranch. It had the gravel kit, Dee Howard reversers, drag chute, Mark ll wing with a 98 knot basic ref. When the 35 came along the strip was lengthened and oiled.

Edit: The 24 was as close as I ever got to flying a T-38; same engines (without after burner) and same weight, but without the supersonic part.

I'm still flying some old Falcon 10's. They do quite well on short fields and can pretty much still outrun almost everything out there.

We referred to those as the “mission accomplished” lights.

The 35 was much better on fuel, but didn’t handle like the 20s. I’d love to go fly a tank of gas through a nice, light 24 again.

No comment on rolling them, although I hear they would do it nicely.

I got to fly two of the 28s that were built. We used to take them up to 510. I've also heard the 25's roll well.

To drive a 20 series Lear has always been my dream. The 31 was as close as I got and was told it was a Lear with training wheels.

No problem Mark. Here's a 24D on Controller for $150K. Has Stage lll hush kit; ready to go. Care and feeding, extra.

The Lear is what a jet should look like!

We used to have a passenger, who was pushing max density, that would grab the seatbelt extender and head aft. One of us would immediately jump up on the front of the teeter totter to counteract. When said pax stepped on that lower door, the cable sang out like a musical saw. I always fretted over wether or not it was going to start spitting strands.

My first ride in a GA aircraft was in a 25. First week on the job as an 18 year old avionics tech intern. Still the most impressive jet ride I have ever had.

"stepped on that lower door"

A Lear pilot just isn't worth his salt if he hasn't flopped out onto the ground opening the lower door at least once in his career.

The shop sent me a rendering of the panel yesterday. It looks ok but I am a little underwhelmed. The GTN's will be nice but the plane was fine the way it was. The ADS-B upgrade solutions in the legacy Citations dont leave one with many good options. I could have hodge podged it together cheap but in the long run I felt it was best to modernize as much as possible. One GTN tunred into two and then the audio panels, transpnders and a new Garmin radar will round out the project. I actaully prefer the large 4 inch instruments. The situational awareness will be better without the need for the iPad although I will still use it. The fuel flow is being fed into the GTN's and that will be a nice feature. I was curious if the GTN's offer range rings based on fuel? The avidyne IFD540 did and I reallly enjoyed that feature.

What self respecting Lear driver doesn’t have a support hook for the door? It’s hard on those cables with even a normal size person.

As to falling out...



That Controller ad has me thinking some seriously irresponsible thoughts... we could do fine in an apartment. Really. I could feed it for at least a year... one incredible, blissful, epic year...

Ahhh...