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However, now he has donated that particular plane to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society, which is located at Sydney called Albion Park Airport. If you are ever there, you can see his plane! It sounds very nice.
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However, now he has donated that particular plane to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society, which is located at Sydney called Albion Park Airport. If you are ever there, you can see his plane! It sounds very nice.
Bombardier Challenger 601 / Wikimedia Commons
John also owns several expensive and impressive airplanes. Two of the most impressive planes he has owned are the Bombardier Challenger 601 and the Boeing 707. In order to even fly the Challenger, he had to get a special certification.
The Boeing was a former Qantas Airways plane. John is an ambassador for Qantas, so maybe he got a deal on this one. Either way, he probably wanted to rep their plane. While it used to be a commercial airplane, John turned it into a private plane with two bedrooms! The total cost of the plane and upgrades was about $77 million. here
John has opened up about the Challenger and said it was owned by the creator of Learjet, Bill Lear. John said, “It uses Canadair technology, which has evolved to an extraordinary degree since the 1970s, although it is a 30-year-old Learjet design.” more
The actor-turned-pilot seems to relish both professions: "Now I've made a profession out of flying as well as acting. At my age, it's something to do when you're not working".
Travolta has been a Qantas "ambassador-at-large" since 2002 and keeps his personal Qantas Boeing 707 in the yard of his Florida home. His relationship with Qantas started when Travolta procured his pilot's license and flew a Qantas 707 to Sydney to promote the 2001 movie Swordfish. "I’ve been really able to operate out of this house for business and personal reasons. It’s been the best years, in terms of my personal dreams coming true. Being part of an airline, part of aviation… at a magnitude like Qantas. They're the best airline in the world, they have the best safety record, the best service, and to be part of that and to be allowed in… it's a privilege", the aviation addict splattered.
John Travolta and his lovely wife Kelly Preston was one of the first couples to purchase land in the Jumbolair Aviation Estates, the residential airpark where they live. Actor is a flight enthusias and certified private pilot who owns five aircraft and an astonishing 16-car garage, so it’s only fitting that the John Travolta's house has two runways that lead directly to his front door! “We designed the house for the jets and to have at our access the world at a moment’s notice, and we succeeded at that,” John Travolta said Australia's "Today".
“I can’t call it modern - it’s really a midcentury-style home,” actor John Travolta says of the Florida house. “John had a vision of how he wanted everything to be,” says designer Sherri James. “We just implemented his ideas.” here
Nothing that the plane theme is everywhere in John Travolta's house, he explained: "I was five years old when I fell in love with aviation. This is in my blood". "It was always John’s dream to have planes in his front yard — to practically be able to pull up to the house — so that when you wanted to go to dinner, all you’d have to do was step out the door, get on the plane and whisk off”, said Kelly Preston. John Travolta added: "You can be the ultimate eccentric, like I am, and bring in Boeing 707, but you can also bring in any corporate jet or airliner". Although the property came equipped with a 7,500-foot runway, Travolta extended the taxiway to reach the house. more
John Travolta and Kelly Preston are also scientologists. Travolta piloted a plane filled with volunteers, doctors, and supplies to Haiti following the earthquake in 2010 to help with relief. more
Everyone here knows who John Travolta is. There is no problem there, we are reasonably sure. However, we're pretty sure that everyone knows varying degrees of information about the man. People will know that he is a Scientologist. No surprise there (anymore). People will also know that he dressed up in drag for the film version of the musical Hairspray. But we're just wondering how many people here know that John Travolta happens to have a home that doubles as an airport! That might be the nuttiest thing in his life.
Travolta is a pilot but because he is also ridiculously wealthy, he has his own airport! He has two sizeable planes parked at his house. because why wouldn't he? In addition to that, he is also a fan of cars. Strangely enough, he is a fan of rather specific cars and doubles and sometimes even triples up on the number of cars he owns. He has three Ford T-Birds. He has two Merc 280SLs. then he has a bit of a variety thrown in and around those.
So, let's take a deeper dive into the bizarre world that is the life of luxury of John Travolta and look at his car collection and his airport of a house. There is something simply unreal about this man and the way he lives. At least we can enjoy it by proxy to some extent. [links]
John Travolta is a well-known name in the film community. Starring in movies like Grease, Pulp Fiction, and Hairspray, Travolta has made quite the name for himself. What most people don’t know is that John is also famous in the aviation community. That’s right, the actor has been a well-established pilot since he was in his early twenties. The actor has had an interest in flying since his early teens and made both of his dreams a reality. But, with flying comes risks and John faced death in an airplane not too long ago. If you want to know more about this close encounter, make sure to watch till the end as we’ve saved the best for last.
Though Travolta is a well establish pilot, everyone makes mistakes from time to time. But forgetting to pay a bill or getting a speeding ticket does not come with the consequences of making a mistake while flying a massive aircraft. In 1992, John made a mistake that could’ve ended disastrously for everyone involved. The actor was flying one of his smaller Gulfstream planes when suddenly his equipment malfunctioned, leaving the aircraft without power. As one does, John set course to make an emergency landing. Without power, he was unable to make communication with transmission towers or other airplanes nearby. Another airplane was directed to search for the pilot and his plane, but this ended up making the situation far more dangerous. Now, suddenly, without any warning or communication, two airplanes were traveling towards each other at speeds breaching 400 miles per hour. The planes ended up crossing paths and missing each other by a little less than two miles. Even though two miles seems like a large amount of space, it is disastrously close when moving so fast. Travolta ending up finding his way and landing safely at the Washington International Airport. The actor used the emergency brake to land and everyone on both planes remained safe. The actor rarely speaks about this incident, most likely to helo maintain his status as an experienced pilot. Travolta is not alone though! Other famous actors such as Harrison Ford have been placed in similar situations in their aviation careers. The Star Wars actor has been in the news on several occasions for close call situations where he wrongly landed on runways and narrowly escaped death. Harrison even crashed his 2 person plane on a golf course in 2015.
Having your own airport sounds crazy right? Not to John Travolta. The star has built a functional airport with multiple runways outside of his house located in Florida. Parked on the runways are his personal airplanes. The actor owns a $77 Million Dollar Qantas 707 and a $32 Million dollar Bombardier Challenger 601. It is highly unusual to have a personal airport but in addition to his impressive collection of rare planes, this makes Travolta stand out from many other actors who are aviation geeks. [links]
'It's always exciting to get back in the air again, so here I am celebrating,' Travolta said, while turning the camera to show his plane soaring above the clouds. more
Celebrating: 'It's always exciting to get back in the air again, so here I am celebrating,' Travolta said, while turning the camera to show his plane soaring above the clouds [links]
He was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2007, and he wrote the book Propeller One-Way Night Coach, following a young boy's first flight.
Travolta was sporting a salt and pepper beard with a black sweatshirt while strapped into the pilot's seat of his plane. here