John Travolta visits aircraft museum and soon to be home of his luxury Boeing 707

[Old Farang]

Hollywood star John Travolta has visited the regional New South Wales aircraft museum in Albion Park where he will donate his Boeing 707.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-04/travolta-visits-museum-soon-to-be-home-of-his-luxury-boeing-707/11669174

[4bee]

Well, I suppose he can't take it with him when he goes. I wonder if he bought it from Quaintarse or was it gifted to him?

[Old Farang]

Well, I suppose he can't take it with him when he goes. I wonder if he bought it from Quaintarse or was it gifted to him?
Not quite sure what your point is there mate. He has owned the aircraft for years and has donated it to Albion Park.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/john-travolta-plane-set-for-november-arrival-in-wollongong/11253868


A special flight permit will be granted to allow Hollywood star John Travolta's Qantas 707 to fly to Wollongong in November where it will be donated to an aviation museum.


Civil aviation authorities are set to grant a special permit to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society to allow the plane to be flown from the United States to its new home at Albion Park, south of Wollongong.

[JDNSW]

I seem to remember that it was bought by him, but not direct from Qantas. However, Qantas have, at least to some extent, helped with maintenance in return for the publicity.

[4bee]

No offence meant to him OF, but it seems it was originally a Qantas Jet but has had various celebrity owners since apparently. A one off. Ok he didn't buy it direct from Qantas but some other party.


he old Boeing was flown by Qantas between 1964 and 1968 as VH-EBM City of Launceston. It is an unusual plane because it is a one-off model, one of only 13 manufactured especially for Qantas back in the 1960s. It used to fly the Fiesta route (https://simpleflying.com/qantas-boeing-747-retirement/)to London. But Qantas offloaded VH-EBM to Braniff Airlines in 1968 where it spent some time before it became a corporate jet belonging to, amongst other people, Frank Sinatra. Mr Travolta bought it in 1998, restoring it with its original Qantas livery, in the process delighting Qantas who appointed him a brand ambassador in 2002.