First Learjet

"Frank Sinatra was singing, "Come with me, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go" and led the chart in 1958. This is Elvis Presley. Sinatra, which previously operated a 40-seater aircraft and a Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris - a Flemish army coach used as a commercial aircraft - received a new Learjet 23 in 1965.

On the basis of the concept of a pilot aircraft from Switzerland his achievement was spectacular. Learjet 23 was acrobatic, powerful and radiant. Certainly Sinatra was a great ringing business man when he autographed the contract for his Learjet in 1964. After Mia Farrow's first date in 1965, he invited her to a show of None but the Brave (with whom?) at his home in Palm Springs.

In the following year they took the Learjet, which Christina II called after Sinatra's younger daugther, on their Honeymoons to the Southern part of France. Sinatra Elvis Presley made his Learjet available to Elvis Presley on 1 May 1967 to fly 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu from Palm Springs to Las Vegas. They were back on the airplane to Palm Springs after an eight-minute ceremonial at the Aladdin Hotel.

Caine flown Sinatra in a plane to question Michael about the British actor's plans regarding his daugther Nancy, with whom Caine was with. One of Sinatra's rat packs, Dean Martin, was a frequent flyer. Though it was mainly purchased by more traditional corporateycoons than Frank Sinatra, the dazzling $495,000 Hollywood plane made a name for itself among those who would spread its quality around the globe.

Kaye purchased a Learjet 23 and became a corporate associate. A Learjet 23, controlled by vendor-driver Clay Lacy, was used in the mid-1980s to shoot the stunning air shots of Top Gun with Tom Cruise in the lead. Learjet, which had quickly moved from being designed to produced to becoming iconic, was the idea of Bill Lear, a self-taught innovator and early-schooler, who was brought up in 1902 in Hannibal, Missouri.

This was the world's first ever successfully completed automobile stereo. In 1931 he bought his first airplane, a double-decker instructor of the Canadian fleet, and designed early auto-pilot sytems and wireless sounders for the aviation industries. However, he is best known for the Learjet, a development he started at the age of 60.

In 1964, the first Lear jet on a test mission with a Federal Aviation Authority pilots at the helm caused a plane accident, which gave Lear the cash he needed to advance the plan. Accidents occurred that struck the Learjet. But in the early days of corporate jet aviation, the pilots' mistake was huge: within three years of the first sale, 23 out of 104 Learjets went down, four with death.

Enhanced piloting education and low velocity manoeuvrability, integrated into the Learjet 24 styling, contributed to this, but the Learjets of the 20-series were embroiled in too many incidents to increase everyone's comforts. Frank Sinatra's 82-year-old dam Dolly passed away in January 1977 when the Learjet 24 he had hired brought her from Palm Springs to Las Vegas for a premiere at Caesar's Palace, hit a snow storm and fell on Mount San Gorgonio.

Subsequent production runs, among them Bombardier's larger, more quiet and far more effective Learjets with composites, are naturally secure. Sinatra' s own Learjet 23 is currently being restored. To mark the company's 45-year anniversary in 2008, when the new eight-seater Learjet 85 was heralded, much attention was paid to it.

It has since been reported that a decline in the corporate jet aircraft sector had maintained Projekt 85. Clay Lacy, 83, still inspires the audience with aerobatics in his Learjet 23, as if it were still 1964 and Frank Sinatra was on the telephone.