Lear Fan Ltd. was a British-American venture that received $72 million in grants and loans from the British Government to build a fuel-efficient executive jet and create 2,800 jobs in Northern Ireland. Lear Fan Jet project was to be based in Newtownabbey. The company's project collapsed in 1985 as per the New York Times. General contents: velcro attached, silicon, black and white photographs of planes, factory workers, office spaces; card images of the aircrafts, 2 informational booklets on the Lear Fan 2100 aircraft (1983); Learavia quality control manual (revised 1982); Lear Fan Your Guide to Northern Ireland printing stuck together (1980); Lear Fan photocopies of various aircraft N327ML, and N628BL (1983); advertisement card with performance design data and metrics from Nevada; photocopies of a newspaper story on Lear Fan; Perspective newspaper on Lear Fan 'revolution' in the sky (1982); Westland Review 1982; British Hovercraft Corporation magazine; CAA audits and visits notices (1981-1982); correspondence from the Civil Aviation Authority; Letters on Lear Fan expositions (1982); letters from the CAA Approval Committee (1982); meeting notes for Lear Fan (1981); dozens of photocopies of newspaper headlines surrounding the company, including: Ulster and Eire 'may cooperate in engineering,' Lear Fan looks for more investment, CBI plea for cut in 'crazy' interest rates; a business and finance Interavia Airletter 'Hanover Report' (1982); 'DUP man fears Lear Fan rundown' Belfast Telegraph clipping (1983); two photographs of a mayor being shown around a factory floor; weekly report for June 1981; many administrative and operations correspondence to senior staff (1981); engineering strength test graph; photocopies of report tables on parts; management services department weekly reports for May and July 1981; paper on the effects of humidity for advanced composite bonding by Karl Reimer; draft of a procedures manual system (1981); paper on Polyester Moulding Materials in Automotive Underbonnet Environments; equipment preparation indices; unknown diagrams; correspondence of procedure for aircraft part fabrication (1981); Lear Fan Ltd. Training Manual (1981); Final Assembly Training (1982); Lear Fan Ltd. Business card for Newtownabbey; blank press release pages with business information for Newtownabbey; How's Business with a stapled note from 1985; futuristic aircraft poster; standard shop practice sheets, mostly blank (1983); two original envelopes containing sealed documents from the Civil Aviation Authority in 1983, both pertaining to airworthiness requirements; letter to (presumably) senior staff discussing the frustrations of each department (1981); Lear Fan Ltd. confidential paper discussion on wages policy (1980); report on epoxy/ carbon fibre sealing material for the company from The Polytechnic Innovation and Resource Centre; final assembly document copy 26 (1982); work rules, tabled material densities, and various diagrams written with marker on laminate paper; hand drawn diagrams of roads.