The big thread on celebrities that are pilots.
 

We all know the usual suspects:

John Travolta - multiple ratings, multiple planes.

Harrison Ford - owns a Beaver and a Bell LongRanger and also some private jet.

Clint Eastwood - owns a Eurocopter Squirrel.

Morgan Freeman - used to own a Beech Baron, but stepped up to the sleek Swearingen SJ30 business jet a couple of years ago. Owns one of the few flying.

Tom Cruise - owns a Mustang and apparently some other aircrafts, as well.

Arnold Palmer - famous golfer has been a pilot for decades and frequently flies his jet himself.

Kris Kristofferson - US Army helicopter and commercial pilot, don't know if he still flies.

Angelina Jolie - UK PPL license then either FAA converted or issued on the basis of. Owns a Cirrus SR22 and a Cessna Caravan 208B.

Sydney Pollack - this great director (Tootsie, Three Days Of The Condor etc) owned and flew a Citation 550 before he passed away a couple of years ago.

Dennis Quaid - owns and flies a Citation 500.

Kurt Russell - owns and flies a TBM850.

Jimmy Buffet - singer has been a pilot for decades.

Jay Kay - the Jamiroqui front man is a licensed helicopter pilot.

Nick Mason, David Gilmour - members of Pink Floyd are avid pilots.

Bruce Dickinson - we all know him.

But here are some that you might not know are pilots:

Gisele Bundchen – the mega supermodel learned to fly helicopters a couple of years ago.

Brad Pitt - apparently Angelina Jolie made him take his license so they both could fly the planes they/she owns.

Anthony Edwards - that's right, Goose from Top Gun pretty recently learned to fly and flies a Cirrus SR20 or 22.

Edward Norton - this is straight from the horses mouth. I landed in Peoria, IL one night and the FBO guy who booked me a hotel for the night, said he'd helped Edward book a hotel about 3 months earlier. He'd flown in pretty late in the evening in a C182.

Robert Zemeckis - the successful director has over 1600hrs and is an instrumet rated pilot. Don't know if he owns a plane, but I'm sure he does.

Please add to list if you know any good ones.

celebrity pilots
 

Sir Alan Sugar (is he a celebrity ?) misjudged the approach to Barton (EGCB) a few years back, and ended up slightly bending his Europa.

The top gear duo
James may has a ppl and hamster has a ppl(h)

Pretty certain it was a Cirrus:ouch:

Just to add of course a certain lady that is proposing to fly round the world!

Both Alex James and Dave Rowntree of blur have (at least) PPL(A) with MEP

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger - both fixed wing and rotary.
(Now retired - Very well known by his title before retiring.)

A real sky pilot then.

The big thread on celebrities that are pilots.
 

Yer man, he used be a lib dem MP and was throwing a leg on one of 'The Cheeky Girls' for a bit. Lembit Opik or something like that

Tom Cruise was a frequent visitor to Farnborough in his Gulfstream 4 N328KC. As the 'K' stood for 'Kidman' he probably doesn't own it any more.
Never heard of Bruce Dickinson; is he famous?

He owned a Grumman Albatross :ok:

Great descriptions of his flying experiences in his autobiography " A Pirate Looks At Fifty"

PS He was once asked to do a concert on an aircraft carrier. His response was "Yes, if I arrive in a Tomcat."

Two Brits: Michael Gambon pilots his own aircraft. and Martin Shaw (of ''The Professionals" fame) is a keen pilot and has presented a couple of TV programmes about flying.




John Denver was a fairly experienced pilot - but that didn't end well. Ditto for Jim Reeves.

Gambon is famous for telling tall stories. He isn't on Ginfo.

Gary Numan, 80's popster, flew round the world in a Harvard or something like that.

Dave Lee Roth-clattercopters

The late Patrick Swayze-mep

Both George Bush senior and Dubbya have CPL's.

Edit: I think DJ's Mike Smith and Noel Edmonds are clatter pilots, seem to remember Mike Smith crashing one some years ago.

Del Boy, David Jason PPL(H) and Joe Pasquale PPL(A)

Gary Newman flew around the world in a Pa 31, trashed it somewhere and had the remains cut in half and mounted on a wall in his house.

I have a LAPL and am a legend in my own mind. Also famous in my house. Love the fixation on celebrity. Anyone watching big brother?

Nicholas Lyndhurst - "Rodney" Only Fools and Horses.
(Goodwood)

Roger Whittaker - Musician.
(Stansted)

I have flown with both. :p

celebrity pilots
 

Has anyone mentioned Carol Vordermann ? Has she got a licence yet, or is she still learning ?

Jonathan Agnew from Test Match Special.

In reply to a question in an earlier post: Bruce Dickinson is famous for having belonged to the same fencing club as me for a number of years. I think he also has something to do with a band called Iron Maiden :)

Michael Dorn - actor in Star Trek The Next Generation

There are more, just can't think of them right now.