Lear Fan Ltd. was a British-American venture that received substantial funding from the British Government to create jobs in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, building a fuel-efficient executive jet. The project was to collapse in 1985. General contents: black and white photographs of planes, factory workers, office spaces; card images of the aircraft, informational booklets on the Lear Fan 2100 aircraft (1983); Learavia quality control manual (revised 1982); Lear Fan: Your Guide to Northern Ireland print (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); photocopies of newspaper headlines on 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); photographs of a dignatory being shown around a factory floor; weekly report for June 1981; 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 on 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); 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 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, various diagrams written with marker on laminate paper; hand drawn diagrams of roads.
