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	Moya Lear Forwards Award To Embry-Riddle University
		Moya Lear, who this past July received the $10,000 monetary portion of the 1999 Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award at the Amelia Earhart Festival in Atchison, KS, donated the money to Embry Riddle University on Wednesday.
		Lear told a small group attending the ceremony at NBAA that the monetary reward was given with the understanding that it would, in turn, be given to the university of the awardee's choice and "that was easy.
		Lear is a former trustee of Embry Riddle and received an honorary doctorate there in 1981.
	www.aviationnow.com /shownews/99nbaa3/topsto09.htm (167 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Moya (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moya is a character/spacecraft in the Farscape universe.
		Moya was once a captive of the Peacekeepers who sought to control her and other Leviathans through the use of giant control collars placed around the ships to subdue them.
		Moya has become a friend and home to her crew and they have been through many bizarre, disheartening, and exhilarating events together.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Moya (281 words)

	Bill Lear - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lear was born in Hannibal, Missouri and later moved with his family to Chicago, where he attended school up until the eighth grade.
		Lear had no formal education past grade school beyond the courses which he took in the navy.
		Lear Jet was acquired in 1990 by Bombardier Aerospace.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/William_Powell_Lear (401 words)

	Moya Lear Information
		Moya Marie Olsen Lear (March 27 1915 – December 16 2001) was an American businesswoman and the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear.
		Lear received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University and earned a total of six honorary doctoral degrees, and devoted a substantial amount of time to philanthropy in the Reno, Nevada area.
		After the death of her husband, Lear attempted with investors to complete his innovative lightweight turboprop airplane, the LearFan, but the project ultimately failed to obtain FAA certification because of a gearing problem, and never went into production.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Moya_Lear (159 words)

	Bill Lear
		Lear was born in Hannibal, Missouri as an only child.
		In the 1920s, Lear and a partner, Elmer Wavering, invented the first practical car radio, eventually selling their patents to the Galvin Corporation (which would later become the Motorola company).
		Lear changed the name of Lear Developments to Lear, Incorporated and in 1949 opened a manufacturing facility in Santa Monica, California.
	www.1bx.com /en/William_Powell_Lear.htm (776 words)

	The Official Bill Lear Website
		Lear was arrested in 1926, when the FBI caught up with him in Buffalo, N.Y., for taking the under-aged Murphy across the state line; he was indicted with a felony violation of the Mann Act (trafficking in white slavery).
		Moya Olsen was the daughter of Broadway's famous stage comedian Ole Olsen, of Olsen and Johnston in New York's "Hellzapoppin" fame.
		After Lear's death on May 14, 1978, Moya Lear (who died in 2001) became chair of Lear Avia, and took over the Lear Fan project with gusto—because she loved him, and because that was her husband's last request, and his last dream.
	www.billlear.com /lear_gene.htm (7879 words)

	Moya Lear, Reno philanthropist, dies at 86 (printable version)
		Lear was married to Bill Lear from 1942 until his death in 1978 and during that time, her life revolved around him, his inventions and his businesses.
		Lear was born in Chicago in 1915 to Lillian and John “Ole” Olsen.
		Moya Lear’s mother, Lillian, lived to be 102 and spent her final years at the Verdi estate.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=3240 (1487 words)

	Moya Olsen Lear Gift to Fund Women's Scholarships at Embry-Riddle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lear will formally present the check to Embry-Riddle during a ceremony in her honor at the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention in Atlanta, Ga. The ceremony will be held 1-2 p.m., Oct. 13, in Press Conference Room 363W, at the Georgia World Congress Center.
		As noted in her Amelia Earhart award, Lear has triumphed over adversity, has modeled self-worth and self-confidence for young women, and has shown women that the sky is no longer the limit.
		She and her husband, Bill Lear, creator of the Learjet, the autopilot, and the eight-track tape, caused an international sensation in 1956 when they became the first private pilots to fly into Moscow during the Cold War.
	www.embryriddle.edu /er/newsmedia/newsreleases/1999/lear.html (504 words)

	Moya Lear Forwards Award To Embry-Riddle University
		Moya Lear, who this past July received the $10,000 monetary portion of the 1999 Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award at the Amelia Earhart Festival in Atchison, KS, donated the money to Embry Riddle University on Wednesday.
		Lear told a small group attending the ceremony at NBAA that the monetary reward was given with the understanding that it would, in turn, be given to the university of the awardee's choice and "that was easy.
		Lear is a former trustee of Embry Riddle and received an honorary doctorate there in 1981.
	www.aviationweek.com /shownews/99nbaa3/topsto09.htm (167 words)

	Moya Olsen Lear, i.e. Mrs. William P.: She Is Our Lady of Perpetual Motion
		William P. Lear is a shrinking violet just hasn't met this spunky, witty, very talented lady whose credentials include induction into the Women in Aviation Pioneers, the Nevada Business Leaders, the Board of Trustees in the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and the Nevada Opera Association.
		Moya Lear lives in a beautiful home in Verdi, NV, outside Reno, on forty acres through which the drinkable Truckee River courses its way.
		Moya was the head guru backstage and into that hubbub came William Powell Lear, who wooed and married her in 1942, the one and only man in her life.
	www.aviationnow.com /shownews/01nbaa2/topsto13.htm (896 words)

	Moya Olsen Lear, i.e. Mrs. William P.: She Is Our Lady of Perpetual Motion
		William P. Lear is a shrinking violet just hasn't met this spunky, witty, very talented lady whose credentials include induction into the Women in Aviation Pioneers, the Nevada Business Leaders, the Board of Trustees in the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and the Nevada Opera Association.
		Moya was the head guru backstage and into that hubbub came William Powell Lear, who wooed and married her in 1942, the one and only man in her life.
		Moya's devotion to her children John, Shanda, David and Tina can only be compared to a lioness guarding her cubs.
	www.aviationweek.com /shownews/01nbaa2/topsto13.htm (896 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Bill Lear
		William (Bill) Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 - May 14, 1978) was an American electrical engineer and businessman.
		One of Lear's most innovative projects was his last -- a revolutionary airplane called the LearFan.
		The turborpop was made of lightweight composite materials instead of the standard aluminum.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Bill_Lear (349 words)

	Bill Lear at AllExperts
		William (Bill) Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman.
		Lear had no formal education past the eigth grade other than the courses which he took in the navy.
		Lear developed the Lear Jet Stereo 8-track music tape cartridge in 1964 as an improvement of the 4-Track Stereo-Pak tape cartridge (Fidelipak) marketed by Earl Muntz in California in 1962.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/bill_lear.htm (770 words)

	Private service set for Reno philanthropist Moya Lear
		Lear died Wednesday at her home in Verdi at the age of 86.
		Lear was an optimist who looked for the best in those around her, Guinn said.
		Lear’s family has requested that donations be made to the Lear Theater in lieu of flowers.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/html/2001/12/07/3426.php (499 words)

	LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: NEWS: Learjet inventor's widow dies
		RENO -- Moya Olsen Lear, the widow of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, died Wednesday at the age of 86.
		Lear, the daughter of John "Ole" Olsen of the Olsen and Johnson vaudeville team, married the inventor in 1942.
		Moya Lear attended church and taught Sunday school in the building on the Truckee River for about 30 years.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2001/Dec-07-Fri-2001/news/17612884.html (151 words)

	Moya Olsen Lear Gift to Fund Women's Scholarships at Embry-Riddle
		Lear will formally present the check to Embry-Riddle during a ceremony in her honor at the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention in Atlanta, Ga. The ceremony will be held 1-2 p.m., Oct. 13, in Press Conference Room 363W, at the Georgia World Congress Center.
		As noted in her Amelia Earhart award, Lear has triumphed over adversity, has modeled self-worth and self-confidence for young women, and has shown women that the sky is no longer the limit.
		She and her husband, Bill Lear, creator of the Learjet, the autopilot, and the eight-track tape, caused an international sensation in 1956 when they became the first private pilots to fly into Moscow during the Cold War.
	www.erau.edu /er/newsmedia/newsreleases/1999/lear.html (504 words)

	Accountings - Lear Family Trust
		The William P. Lear and Moya Olsen Lear Family Trust created two entities, "his" and "her" Trust.
		At the time of his death, it appears that a large portion of William P. Lear Sr.'s property was still in his own name and thus was subject to his Last Will and Testament.
		Moya Olsen Lear's Trust is not the subject of this website with the exception to the transaction wherein she exchanged her property "Riverhouse" with the William P. Lear Family Trust on March 9, 1978, in exchange for the right to use and occupy said premises for the rest of her life.
	www.learfamilytrust.com /acctg_p1.html (431 words)

	Women in Aviation, International
		Moya Olsen Lear was born to Lillian and John Olsen of the famous Olsen and Johnson vaudeville team.
		Serving as chairman of the board of Lear Avia, Inc., she brought the airplane to its successful first flight.
		Lear is a popular speaker, and has been awarded six honorary doctorates, as well as an impressive list of other honors.
	www.wai.org /resources/pioneers.cfm (6942 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Remaining Moya Lear possessions to be sold in Reno
		Remaining Moya Lear possessions to be sold in Reno
		The wife of industrialist and inventor Bill Lear died Dec. 5, 2001 at the age of 86.
		Lear came from Los Angeles with her husband, the man who built the Learjet, to Northern Nevada in 1968, called it a place with nothing but "jackrabbits and sagebrush," then became one of the region's biggest boosters and benefactors.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/feb/18/021810056.html (404 words)

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		When Lear, Inc.’s board of directors decided to move away from products for general aviation and said no to developing a jet for business aviation, Bill not only dismissed the full board, he sold the company, creating a new one in Geneva, where he planned to manufacture and certify his plane.
		His final directive to Moya Lear was to see the project through, not to let it get away from her.
		While Moya had always been involved in the business, serving on all various boards of directors, sitting at the head of the table was a new role.
	www.aviajournal.interami.com /sections/journal/arh/magazine/20022eng/st3.html (10972 words)

	Do Unto Others Project-Church of the Science of God
		Moya, a great listener, became Bill’s confidante, They married in 1941 and she bore four children: John, Shanda (pun suggested by Ole), David and Tina.
		Lear, engrossed in perfecting his autopilot, realized he was in a military zone.
		Lear trusted that whenever he needed inspiration he could unleash his imagination into the universe and retrieve a brainchild.
	www.dountoothers.org /lear11107.html (988 words)

	If Bill Could See Me Now
		Moya was born Moya Marie Olsen in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois.
		Moya said, "After all, he was one of Daddy's friends and I had to be nice to him." One evening as she was finishing her work, there was a soft knock on the door.
		Moya didn't think she could go on without Bill, but the day after the funeral, she went to his office.
	www.wingsandstars.com /Sample1/sample1.htm (2195 words)

	Bill and Moya Lear--An Unforgettable Flight Air Classics - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Moya Olsen was born to Lillian and John Olsen of the very famous Olsen and Johnson vaudeville team.
		The Lear Fan utilized composite construction well before it became popular with other manufacturers and certainly appeared to be headed toward success before the collapse of the company.
		Moya Lear is to be congratulated on producing such a personal volume on her life and times.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200103/ai_n8950089 (455 words)

	Lear Theater on Historic Nevada: KNPB Online
		The Lear Theater in downtown Reno was originally the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
		In addition to the Lear, Paul R. Williams also designed these local buildings: The Rafael Herman house at Rancho San Rafael, The Garvey Residence on California Avenue, Loomis Manor, and the El Reno housing project of which one unit remains.
		The Lear Theater it is on the local, state, and national registers for historic places.
	www.knpb.org /productions/historicnevada/lear.asp (332 words)

	Reno/Tahoe Visitor : Arts
		The historical and national significance of the Lear Theater structure, completed in 1939 as a church, lies primarily with its architect, Paul Revere Williams.
		The Lear Theater building is an elegant, simplified neo-classical structure and is listed in the City, State and National Registers of Historic Places.
		Upon completion of the renovation in July 2005, the Lear will house four performance spaces, including a 425-seat main auditorium, a cabaret/children’s theater, a studio theater and an outdoor festival plaza.
	www.renotahoevisitor.com /arts/lear.php (250 words)

	FlightSim.Com NOTAMS
		The Learfan 2100 was designed by William Lear, the father of the executive jet aircraft market of which he produced the worlds first privately owned jet.
		It was Moya Lear's hope and efforts to bring her beloved's hard work to reality and she did continue trying to bring the 2100 into production, though eventually the plane and dream became part of aviation history.
		Even the worlds first automotive radio was his invention, as well as quite a number of ingenious navigational instruments for aircraft early in the industry's age that made such things as ILS affordable to the private aviation sector.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/notams04/lear1014.htm (678 words)

	MOYA LEAR AND THE BIG PAYOFF (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At 25 and never married, she was working backstage for he father in New York when the thrice married 38 year old Bill Lear swept her off her feet.
		Moya chronicled her life in an autobiography (it's a good read!).
		After selling Lear Jet, they briefly moved to California before finally settling down in the River House on the banks of the Truckee River just outside of Reno, Nevada.
	www.aerotalk.com /Lear_Moya.cfm (470 words)

	Bill Lear Summary
		Lear also designed one of the first practical automobile radios, cramming a large volume of equipment into a package small enough to fit into a standard car.
		He later designed a radio amplifier that became the basis for all RCA radios for many years, and invented the once-popular 8-track tape player.
		In the aviation industry, Lear developed a lightweight automatic pilot device, aircraft navigational aids, and in 1962 founded Lear Jet Corporation, the renowned manufacturer of small jet aircraft for private and business travel.
	www.bookrags.com /Bill_Lear (840 words)

	-- TIME
		However, Bob Burch's expectation that the Lear Fan will be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in the "summer of 1983" is based on unfounded optimism and lack of experience.
		What has been said about my mother however, is not correct; she did the best she could when she was running the company, particularly since she was surrounded by incompetence and greed.
		Moya Lear's courage, determination and fortitude made the Lear Fan a reality.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,923167-2,00.html (658 words)

	Preservation Online: Today's News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The group, which paid the church $1.1 million for the building in 1998, has been planning to open the theater for almost a decade and has raised almost $9 million from donations, including $1.1 million from Moya Lear, the theater's namesake.
		Lear Theater Inc. wants to move the building 500 feet east to city parkland.
		Rosenblatt has met with city officials, structural engineers, and the state historic preservation office, and all are supportive of the relocation plan, he says.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/news/print.htm (330 words)

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