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A Look Into John Travolta’s House Which Has A Private Airport With 2 Runways For His Private Planes
Just like the popular sayings that say when you are big, you are big and money makes the world goes round. Not many may have heard of John Travolta as his name doesn’t ring a bell as such in Africa especially in Nigeria.
John Travolta (64), a Hollywood star, famous for his many films, including Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, was an aviation enthusiast since his childhood.
When he was a child, the entertainment industry and aviation merged. His mother, Helen Cecilia Burke, and three sisters were stage performers who often travelled. Every day, Travolta would wait for planes to fly over the family’s home. Travolta lived in New Jersey, close to the New York’s LaGuardia Airport runway.
Travolta is certified to fly numerous aircraft of all sizes, including Gulfstream II, Eclipse 500, Boeing 707. Following extensive sessions at Qantas’s Sydney headquarters and with Boeing in Seattle, he has also successfully completed 747-400 First Officer simulator training.
Travolta is also a passionate airplane collector. His collection was at some point four and even six aircrafts large. Still, the brightest star of Travolta’s collection was Boeing 707.
Travolta’s passion for aviation has inspired many people. So has his home at Jumbolair Aviation Estates, the nation’s largest and most exclusive fly-in community. Jumbolair is a 550-acre community that’s built specifically for people who want to fly in and out of their homes. The property, which covers over 550 acres, also includes a separate 3,600-foot-long lighted grass runway, a 7,686-square-foot mansion once owned by horse breeder Muriel Vanderbilt, an 8,700-square-foot conference center, and 17 unsold estate lots with runway access.
The private runway can be found next to Travolta’s house, meaning he can just pop out of the door and hop into one of his five aircraft.
The residence was designed by architect Dana Smith. Construction of the house lasted two years, but “the plan took, on and off, about six years,” Travolta says. “We moved into the guest quarters for a while to oversee it.”
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