Gib From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 281 posts, RR: 0 Posted (7 years 7 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 12884 times:
I thought it might be interesting to ask the a.net world this question... Of course the obvious are like Abramovich, Travolta, Trump, Oprah, etc., but who else do you know of?? If this has been covered before, I apologize...
HPRamper From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3665 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 12767 times:
Paul Allen, his 757 is a common sight at PDX and SEA especially during basketball season
Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 12742 times:
Pawsleykat From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 1978 posts, RR: 14 Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 12534 times:
There is like some rich Middle Eastern guy ( I think from UAE) who bought a 763 and did it up. It was on Discovery wings on the Sky TV. Sombody Mussad, I think that was his name
First Class passengers are my favourites. They can't get any further forward without an ATPL.
Type-Rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4355 posts, RR: 20 Reply 8, posted (7 years 7 months 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 12278 times:
NASOCEANA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 291 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 7 months 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 12243 times:
Dennis Quaid, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Wayne Newton, Steven Speilberg, George Lucas, Martha Stewart, Bob Johnson, Ozzie Osbourne, Hugh Hefner, Kevin Harvick, Jeremey Mayfield, Rick Hendricks, Daniel Synder, George Steinbrenner, Bill Gates, and Alex Rodriguez.
Just to name a few I'm sure I could come up with more.
United_Fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7162 posts, RR: 8 Reply 12, posted (7 years 7 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 12081 times:
Star Trek's Michael Dorn has a Sabreliner N881DM.
'Empathy was yesterday...Today, you're wasting my Mother-F'ing time' - Heat.
CaptainTim From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2004, 431 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (7 years 7 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 11911 times:
Most celebrities find it terribly troublesome to own a plane and use fractional so i guess a lot of the celebritie that
Quoting NASOCEANA (Reply 10): Dennis Quaid, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Wayne Newton, Steven Speilberg, George Lucas, Martha Stewart, Bob Johnson, Ozzie Osbourne, Hugh Hefner, Kevin Harvick, Jeremey Mayfield, Rick Hendricks, Daniel Synder, George Steinbrenner, Bill Gates, and Alex Rodriguez.
mostuse Netjets franctional ownership and their jets.
I can add that Tom cruise owns a gulfstream V
-tim
Gulfstream Planeview Cockpit: "why have hundreds of buttons when a CCD does the same thing and more?"
Molykote From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 1336 posts, RR: 30 Reply 16, posted (7 years 7 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 11856 times:
Quoting 2H4 (Reply 9): Michael Schumacher has since bought a new Falcon:
£56 Million, plus whatever the cost of the fit out. Chump change to a man like Abramovich - the 3 yachts he owns come in at a collective £200 million and lets not even start on what he has been spending on his football team
Being on: (in no order) VS BA AA EK CX MH DL EI BD KL HV NW RC LH AF DA TG QF US FR LX AC SK AZ PG SQ UA PA
Keta From Germany, joined Mar 2005, 440 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (7 years 7 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 11440 times:
Is there anybody who owns a fighter? I remember hearing that Larry Ellison (I think it was him, I may be wrong) tried to import a Russian fighter plane, but he was not allowed.
CALPilot From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 995 posts, RR: 15 Reply 24, posted (7 years 7 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 11397 times:
Quoting SLCPilot (Reply 19): Funny, I thought Mr. T. Woods used NetJets. Also, Mr. Julio Iglesias' plane looks a lot like a NetJets aircraft as well...
Your right Woods, and Iglesias airplanes are Netjets.
25 Daus: Building Your Own Air Force, One Mig at a Time http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/kirlin.html
26 Aileron11: You know something! What kind of feeling is it to drive up to your own plane? Especially if there widebody.
27 Paddy78: I think I saw in an article years ago that Danny Glover paid to have a downed P-38 lightning pulled out of the jungle in New Guinea and restored.
28 COrocks: I thought that I heard Phil Mickelson owned and flew his own Gulfstream
29 747Loadmaster: Michael Chowdry (CEO of Atlas Air), died in his own fighter jet a few years ago.
30 FOMEA: Again EX Slained PM of Lebanon (Rafiq Hariri) did not build his Fortune in Lebanon,Take a look : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_al-Hariri Regards
31 Airfoilsguy: Come on Bill, you can do better then that tiny thing. I bet buying that plane to Bill Gates is the equivalent of one of us buying a skate board at Wa
33 Centrair: This morning on the news they were talking about Harrison Ford's "aviation hobby". Something about buying a helicopter. He was out at his Wyoming ranc
34 EMBQA: I did a search and came up with zero hits in the FAA pilot data base. I read his autobiography and his dad is a retired Captain... I'm guessing PSA o
35 STT757: Teterboro airport in NJ gets lots of Celebs and CEO's, I took a tour of Jet Aviation's terminal and was awe struck at the luxury. I was advised during
37 BHMBAGLOCK: That's a very big list. One of the companies specializing in bringing these in is just down the road from me - drove by Friday and they were out in a
44 ChiGB1973: Nice, maybe a 777 would be more appropriate. Might have a little trouble getting it in and out of PWK though. M
45 KLMA330: For me it would be a feeling of utter shame and disgust knowing how much fuel I'm burning for one person to travel, and how much money I'm spending o
46 FlyingHippo: When your name is Bill Gates or Opera, I'm sure you'd feel different. Imagine Bill sits next to you on B6?
47 IRelayer: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of google, just bought a 767-200 for themselves. A WSJ article mentions that it may be ex-Qantas. Interesting
48 RoseFlyer: Bill Gates is not an extravagant individual. He doesn't get chauffer driven around and buy incredibly lavish things that serve no purpose. A large po
49 Threepoint: It belongs to Pacific Sky Air Services and will gladly take you and a few of your closest friends to a private function of your choosing anywhere wit
50 AA777223ER: The tobacco heiress Doris Duke had a 737 when she was alive. Regards, AA777223ER
51 TinkerBelle: Check out this T7... http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=3 Apparently, owned by some guy who got assassinated earl
52 DeC: There one was a topic where someone posted an air photo of John Travolta's house / runway with the beautiful b707 parked there, but i can't remember w
53 DeC: I found this page here, about Travolta's home: http://www.jumbolair.com/Architectual%20Digest.htm
54 EI747SYDNEY: It was owned by Rafik Hariri the ex Prime minister of Lebanon. He was allegedly assasinated by the Syrian security forces and the matter is currently
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