Did you know that the famous movie star John Travolta famous for films such as Grease, Look Who's Talking, Pulp Fiction, The Taking of Pelham 123, Gotti and one of my all-time favourites Swordfish is a massive aviation fan and highly experienced pilot?
John's love of aircraft and flying started when he was a young boy and did you know that he actually lives on an airport outside of Ocala, Florida? John lives at an exclusive aviation estate known as "Jumbolair" (or Greystone Airport) which includes a private runway and taxiway for his aircraft.
The New Jersey native began taking flying lessons at age 15 and has been a licensed pilot since he was 22 years old; John has been flying planes for four decades and owns at least seven including a Boeing 707, Dassault Falcon 900, Bombardier Challenger 601, Boeing 727, three Gulfstream jets and an Eclipe 500.
John is qualified to fly a large number of aircraft and recently recieved his Boeing 737 qualifaction too!
Since 2002, John has been an ambassador for Quantas Airlines - of whom originally leased the Boeing 707 that he had parked outside his home at Greystone Airport (Jumbolair) until he dontated it to HARS in 2017.
After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, John reportedly flew his Boeing 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area.
Maybe there are a few other clues as to John's love of aviation - I am guessing that his late son's name (Jett) came from his passion of aircraft?
To obtain this achievement you'll be accepting this (obviously fictitious) dinner invitation and personal tour of his home - be sure to keep your landing about -400fpm, we don't want to annoy our host by "digging up his driveway".
Would you like some realistic scenery for this airport? Checkout these links:
Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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07JUL25 2200Z | KMYR | 17FL | Flocala | Pilatus PC-12 (PC12) | -128 ft/m | 334 nm | 01:21 | View | |
20JUN25 2358Z | KCLT | 17FL | James Goodsell | Boeing 737 MAX 8 (B38M) | -259 ft/m | 408 nm | 01:04 | View | |
29MAY25 1407Z | KNMM | 17FL | Krupke77 | Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning 2 (F35) | -207 ft/m | 461 nm | 01:09 | View | |
23MAY25 1620Z | MYAM | 17FL | Raul Louro | Cessna Citation X (C750) | -32 ft/m | 414 nm | 01:09 | View | |
11MAY25 1431Z | 17FL | 17FL | J.A. | Socata TBM-850 (TBM8) | -188 ft/m | 405 nm | 01:57 | View | |
24APR25 1612Z | MYAN | 17FL | PAPA974 | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -58 ft/m | 368 nm | 01:01 | View | |
22APR25 1028Z | MYAM | 17FL | Rafael Dias | General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon (F16) | -78 ft/m | 319 nm | 00:21 | View | |
21APR25 2204Z | MYAM | 17FL | Filipe Delgadinho | Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning 2 (F35) | -289 ft/m | 330 nm | 00:35 | View | |
20APR25 0057Z | MYAM | 17FL | PVPilot | Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning 2 (F35) | -103 ft/m | 393 nm | 00:37 | View | |
17APR25 1416Z | MYNN | 17FL | XxGuI2eNxX | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -173 ft/m | 411 nm | 01:07 | View | |
22MAR25 0353Z | KSZL | 17FL | Staghound | Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (F22) | -88 ft/m | 1347 nm | 01:18 | View | |
20FEB25 2129Z | KEYW | 17FL | NPS021/Maverick | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -199 ft/m | 360 nm | 01:01 | View | |
20FEB25 2126Z | KNQX | 17FL | NPS177/Yves | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -155 ft/m | 332 nm | 00:59 | View | |
14FEB25 1843Z | KNQX | 17FL | IrishVirtual 01 | Bombardier Challenger 300 (CL30) | -176 ft/m | 322 nm | 01:06 | View | |
20JAN25 0301Z | KBFM | 17FL | Bat24SS | Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning 2 (F35) | -138 ft/m | 328 nm | 00:41 | View | |
08JAN25 1625Z | KSME | 17FL | VAF273 Giacomo | Boeing 737-700 (B737) | -105 ft/m | 498 nm | 01:11 | View | |
31DEC24 1703Z | MYNN | 17FL | Killraven | Cirrus Vision SF-50 (SF50) | -150 ft/m | 391 nm | 01:36 | View | |
23DEC24 2043Z | KJKA | 17FL | Jose Luis G. | Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) | -197 ft/m | 300 nm | 00:55 | View | |
09DEC24 1618Z | KPDK | 17FL | Robert B Dickerson | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -92 ft/m | 417 nm | 01:20 | View | |
09DEC24 0408Z | KNQX | 17FL | Javier M. | Boeing 737-800 (B738) | -158 ft/m | 328 nm | 00:56 | View |