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A Celebrity Invitation to Jumbolair!

Official achievement authored by Bobby Allen.

Did you know that the famous movie star John Travolta famous for films such as Grease, Look Who's Talking, Pulp Fiction, The Taking of Pelham 123, Gotti and one of my all-time favourites Swordfish is a massive aviation fan and highly experienced pilot?

John's love of aircraft and flying started when he was a young boy and did you know that he actually lives on an airport outside of Ocala, Florida? John lives at an exclusive aviation estate known as "Jumbolair" (or Greystone Airport) which includes a private runway and taxiway for his aircraft.

The New Jersey native began taking flying lessons at age 15 and has been a licensed pilot since he was 22 years old; John has been flying planes for four decades and owns at least seven including a Boeing 707, Dassault Falcon 900, Bombardier Challenger 601, Boeing 727, three Gulfstream jets and an Eclipe 500.

John is qualified to fly a large number of aircraft and recently recieved his Boeing 737 qualifaction too!

Since 2002, John has been an ambassador for Quantas Airlines - of whom originally leased the Boeing 707 that he had parked outside his home at Greystone Airport (Jumbolair) until he dontated it to HARS in 2017.

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, joining other celebrities in helping with the relief efforts, John reportedly flew his Boeing 707 full of supplies, doctors, and Scientologist Volunteer Ministers into the disaster area.

Maybe there are a few other clues as to John's love of aviation - I am guessing that his late son's name (Jett) came from his passion of aircraft?

To obtain this achievement you'll be accepting this (obviously fictitious) dinner invitation and personal tour of his home - be sure to keep your landing about -400fpm, we don't want to annoy our host by "digging up his driveway".

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Criteria

Depart from an airport of your choice, fly to and land at 17FL, your flight distance must be further than 300 NM. Your landing rate must not exceed 400 f/m.
Date Departure Arrival Pilot Aircraft Landing rate Distance Flight time
09DEC24 1618Z KPDK 17FL Robert B Dickerson Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -92 ft/m 417 nm 01:20 View
09DEC24 0408Z KNQX 17FL Javier M. Boeing 737-800 (B738) -158 ft/m 328 nm 00:56 View
01DEC24 0251Z CYOD 17FL dragon Boeing 737-900 (B739) -258 ft/m 1978 nm 07:06 View
25NOV24 1653Z KMIA 17FL Lesco_Jones Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -88 ft/m 424 nm 00:36 View
16NOV24 1857Z KMVC 17FL Scotty Clifford Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-550/700 (CRJ7) -78 ft/m 312 nm 00:50 View
08NOV24 2309Z KSME 17FL Bwana Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -27 ft/m 552 nm 01:33 View
03NOV24 2103Z KMYR 17FL Jonathan Araujo Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -58 ft/m 348 nm 01:03 View
03NOV24 0354Z KPHL 17FL TrailMix Boeing 727-200 (B722) -255 ft/m 772 nm 01:46 View
01NOV24 1652Z KATL 17FL VAF155 Alberto Boeing 737-700 (B737) -349 ft/m 312 nm 00:48 View
14OCT24 1819Z KATL 17FL Mike Murray Beechcraft Super King Air 350 (B350) -123 ft/m 304 nm 01:12 View
06OCT24 2222Z KJKA 17FL Rock57 Douglas DC-6 (DC6) -308 ft/m 312 nm 01:08 View
15SEP24 0904Z MUCL 17FL Prio Airbus A320 neo (A20N) -192 ft/m 469 nm 01:12 View
31AUG24 1629Z KMYR 17FL Mike Hawk Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) -181 ft/m 330 nm 00:57 View
23AUG24 0032Z KOAJ 17FL MarioH99 Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -43 ft/m 450 nm 01:40 View
03AUG24 0751Z KTMB 17FL Klappdrachen Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) -61 ft/m 320 nm 00:59 View
30JUL24 1651Z KMYR 17FL Jeanette Zoetendal Cessna Skyhawk (C172) -22 ft/m 314 nm 02:36 View
28JUL24 1108Z KPOB 17FL Mouseviator BEECH 60 Royal Turbine Duke (B60T) -115 ft/m 411 nm 01:57 View
27JUL24 0924Z KCRE 17FL David Embraer 170/175 (E170) -159 ft/m 349 nm 00:59 View
14JUL24 2057Z KMOB 17FL Ernest Maillet De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (DHC6) -201 ft/m 352 nm 01:53 View
05JUL24 1649Z 26A 17FL Niels1501 Socata TBM-9X0 (TBM9) -137 ft/m 311 nm 01:06 View