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The Learjet 60 that crashed Nov. 1 near West Palm Beach, Florida, killing all nine people aboard, was a privately registered charter jet with no known military history. Its family of jets has more than 40 years of it. The Air Force's C-21A, a militarized Learjet 35, entered service in 1984, and 19 are still flying, carrying senior officers and government officials, priority cargo and aeromedical evacuation patients. The Navy also pays contractors to fly Learjets that simulate enemy jets and jamming in training. A $165 million contract in 2024 covers 10 of them, and a 2016 Navy threat-simulation contract named the Learjet 60, the same model that crashed. Nothing in public records ties the jet that went down to any of that work, and the NTSB has not said what caused the crash.
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