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I flew in a small Lear once in Brasil when the company I usually chartered Aztecs and Commanders from to go out in the bush only had the Lear available and chartered it to me for cost. Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte...roughly 2 hours for 750 bucks. It had the cockpit and seating for about 7 in the cabin. We had an ex IDF fighter jock with us and they let him fly some....wow....felt like a fair ride. It was set up SP and gravel kits but we took 2 pilots anyhow. What a blast...it is indeed a different mode of transport from 737 cattle cars. We went quite high too as I recall.

Boy...the stories I could tell about charter craft in the third world. When the pilots are doe eyed in the charts and peering out the window at night looking for lights at an altitude less than the surrounding peaks....you know things could get dangerous. Another time in north central amazonia, we could not find Bom Jesus De Lapa and it was getting dark and when it's dark up there, there are no lights on the horizon nor fuel to be found. At twilight dusk, we found a small village with a suitable gravel road and set the small Commander down and bunked for the nite in the village...lol

Remember when that airline down there got lost over the Amazon and ran out of fuel and crashed in the canopy...even had some survivors...they discovered a lost stone age tribe in the search.

I flew in an Old Beech Hawker and an old Jet Commander with my dad a few times as a boy but can't remember much.

When my dad was dying and he had to get to Mayo quick, Stevens FBO at BNA let him use a Beech "StarShip" prop jet to carry him in comfort for a steal.....maybe the most unusual corporate plane I ever saw.