A unique partnership launched a Learjet 36A (N41GJ) on a fundraising circumnavigation of the globe on April 3, 2024. Global Jet Care, a Florida air ambulance provider, supplied the aircraft for the "Century Mission," supporting the Classic Lear Jet Foundation. This mission also celebrates the 1924 centennial of the first aerial circumnavigation. Private sponsors back the record-attempting 60-hour flight.

The funds raised by this initiative are destined to fund the restoration back to flying condition of one of the first production Learjets, an airframe that was delivered in 1964. 

The Century Mission set off from Wichita, Kansas, a city that’s the historical home of the Learjet production line. 

The flight path will take Global Jetcare founder Bart Gray and four other pilots and crew members in a westbound direction, with stopovers planned at 11 different airports in California, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Singapore, India, Dubai, Egypt, Italy, Portugal and Canada. If everything goes according to plan, the voyagers are expected to touch down again in Wichita 54 hours and 30 minutes after their initial departure.