Posted on 10/19/2025 10:13:49 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a house where airplanes park in the front yard? 🛩️ Welcome to John Travolta’s unbelievable $250 million lifestyle! The Hollywood legend, famous for Grease and Saturday Night Fever, doesn’t just collect luxury cars – he collects airplanes.
In this video, we’ll explore Travolta’s 7,000 sq. ft. mansion at Jumbolair Aviation Estate in Florida, a private community with the longest private runway in America. You’ll see how jets literally taxi up to his front door, the insane cost of building this airport neighborhood, and the shocking story of how Travolta nearly crashed one of his planes.
From his Boeing 707 turned luxury flying palace to a $21 million Bombardier Challenger, John Travolta’s aviation lifestyle is on another level. This is the house where planes are neighbors, runways are driveways, and the sky is your backyard.
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His mother and sister used to give a wonderful Christmas show at the Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Resort. Last year was her last show. We are going to miss her.
I beg to differ with the title. ‘Pastor’🤮 Kenneth Copeland also lives large.
His mansion is situated beside his private airport, ‘Kenneth Copeland Airport’, where he keeps his fleet of aircraft. It is located on Kenneth Copeland Ministries property in Newark, Texas.
Likely the same ‘gawd’ for both!
Can you get honey roasted peanuts?
But I would gladly have a Royale With Cheese with John.
He’s been through hell! He deserves this house and more.
My wife and I have lived on an airport for the past 30 years with our airplanes. The house didn’t cost any more than most houses in the surrounding area not on the airport. Our Piper Cherokee cost $17,600 when we bought it. But it costs a little more than most cars to maintain, although like Real Estate the value has gone up over the years.
We have purchased all of our cars off of the State’s auction site during that time. Our last vehicle from the State Auction site was a 2012 Ford F350 with 218,000 miles that was filthy but the running gear and engine and even in the paint is in good condition. It went for $3000 plus the auction fee. I mention this because we have spent much less on the airplane and our vehicles over the last 30 years than all of our friends.
Our airplane can burn Autogas without alcohol which is available around here and it gets the equivalent of 20 mpg at best economy speed which is about 100 mph and we get to go in a straight line.
No there are a few housing estates with runways. It’s not common, but there are.
That’s pretty cool! I always knew he was a skilled pilot but dead stick landing a Gulfstream is really impressive! Let’s just say he’s no John Denver.
“No there are a few housing estates with runways. It’s not common, but there are.”
There are usually at least one or two in every city. We live on an airpark.
Hollywood legend? I thought a legend was something that was not true.
Commercial airline pilots have mandatory retirement at age 65.
Is Harrison Ford - age 83 - still flying small aircraft?
He had two flying events after age 80 that really indicated it might be time to retire his pilot license.
The above reminds me of one of my favorite souvenirs.
I have a small package of peanuts from a plane trip. On the front is a picture of peanuts, and the word peanuts.
On the back is the required warning label.
WARNING: THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS PEANUTS
Nut producers are required to process peanuts exclusively on their own line.
I lied in Darien, IL where there were a row of houses around 3000 SF, there was a runway in back of the houses and a small plane parked in backyards of every house. Houses were worth less than 1% of $250 million.
He was married to probably the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, Kelly Preston.
No fan of John Travolta but at least he isn’t a left wing loon like so many of his Hollywood counterparts.
Sad story.
John Denver bought a used Long-EZ (Burt Rutan design flying surfboard - foam and fiberglass) homebuilt airplane. The fuel tank switch was in an awkward spot, same as most of the designs, it was located BEHIND the center console where the pilot/pax had to turn around to reach it. The plane was VERY slick, VERY sensitive to flight control inputs to the point - IIRC - with head and body turned in several planes while managing the fuel tank selector, he slightly turned the plane into a dive and SPLASH. With his head/torso oriented away from the horizon he never felt or saw it coming. I remember photos of the crash in Monterey Bay - probably wasn’t any wreckage larger than a toaster.
I was an Army flight surgeon with a few investigations behind me and this case was particularly interesting as I had seen John Denver just a few weeks prior at an Orioles game (I had better seats) in BMO and I was building a Cozy Mk IV at the time, which I eventually sold to some guys out in LA who flew into Maryland, loaded the project up in a Uhaul truck and took it back to LA where it was flying two years later.
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