Wilbur and Orville. The list goes on and on from there.

I really don't understand this obsession with celebrity.

The late Hughie Green used to pilot his own C337...still remember the reg from my spotting days as a kid a t Manchester..G-ASLL

Mark Evens the TV vet has a PPL.

A well know black footballer who's name escapes me has a PPL H...I'm sure somebody will know who I mean,

Doesn't Chris Evens???

Stan Stennet

Bet you youngsters have never heard of him,much loved Welsh comedian and all rounder had his own light twin back in the day he's still around aged about 85 now.

Chris Evans does, PPL(h) I believe.

Also believe Michael Owen, the footballer has a PPL(h)

The late Colin Mcrae....

Jurgen Klinsman... (h)

Tom Fletcher (from the mcfly band) is either a PPL or learning...

Some other band member mentioned in this months pilot mag aswell.

John seargent has some sort of flying experience also I believe.

George Bush - cpl, not really a celeb though is he, more of a knob.

I remember reading in a tabloid newspaper, following Mike Smith's helicopter crash in the late 80's that Sarah Greene (who I think was his girlfriend at the time) was "pulled from the wreckage of Mike Smith's chopper". Caused some amusement for a teenage me.

Stan Stennet also had a V tail Bonanza in the early 80's based at Swansea

Don Maclean ( not the singer, the comedian and Crackerjack presenter).
PPL (A) PA28-180. I know, because I bought it from him...

George Bush Junior: I agree!

George Bush Senior: flew combat in WW2, was shot down in the Pacific and rescued by a US submarine.

She was my earlier reference about "a certain lady"

Hughie Green got shot at most sincerely by MiGs when opportunity knocked whilst flying his C310 along (or outside...) one of the Berlin corridors...

Yes, many people have regretted their poor marksmanship...

I am amazed to see that Stan Stennet is still alive. I can remember laughing so much it hurt at a pantomime when I was a kid. In keeping with the thread I also flew in a Lycoming powered Auster which had been owned by him.

Derek Piggot
Author and stunt pilot in The Blue Max, Those magnificent men in their flying machines. etc
He was still flying earlier this year well into his 80s

I remember seeing Stan Stennet at Haverfordwest a couple of years ago. He'd flown in from Swansea. I reminisced with him about the many times I had met him in 1967-8 at Speke Airport along with Hughie Green. I was working in the flight briefing room. They were both very professional as far as I could see. Happy days!

Bill Gates - took on flight simulator to help himself learn instrument flying. Kennedy junior.

F1
 

Martin Brundle - helicopter
David Coulthard - helicopter
Mark Webber - helicopter student (at Duxford I believe)

Noisy job, noisy hobby :)

Former footballer Les Ferdinand is a helicopter pilot, and goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann has a PPL.

Niki Lauda was a commercial pilot, may still be flying. Graham Hill was another F1 pilot, as is Jack Brabham.

FBW

Lewis Collins (a.k.a. 'Bodie' of 'The Professionals') was also a PPL holder - he did some flying with us at the Covert Oxonian Aerodrome and was quite happy to muck in with all the normal jobs such as refuelling and putting the aircraft away.

By all accounts, the lads on the gate were a bit surprised when he turned up though....:)

Nigel Mansell aswell,

He flies (or used to) his own jet.

Fergie - the female version - gained a PPL(H) in 1987.

Jack