Hi everyone

Could you help me with a little project?  I'm trying to track down celebrity/famous people/business leaders' private aircraft, both Bizjets and GA.

I'm not on about those you can already find on FAA or similar, rather those that are hiding under pseudonyms or finance companies; e.g. Oprah Winfrey = Harpo Aviation etc. 

Spotting logs or pictures would be ideal, perhaps we could make a gallery of them?

Many thanks,

PS: A particular interest in motorsport drivers/team personnel

Here's a couple to start the list

Arnold Palmer Citation X N1AP

Nigel Mansell Citation X...rumoured to be M-SELL 

 

Jimmy Buffett (see link http://margaritaville.com/ ) operates a Caravan N208JB and a Falcon 900B N908JB under the name of Strange Bird Inc.

 

G-REYS  Challenger of Mclaren/Ron Dennis

HB-JEG Falcon Michael Schumacher

G-OFOA and G-OFOM BAE 146 Bernie Airways

OE-HII Challenger Nikki Lauda 

Forgot Bernie's new toy to be Falcon 7X N999BE

 I'm sure everyone's already aware of N707JT.....

I forgot to add that Tom Cruise has a P-51, don't have a clue if he actually flys it but it does show he has pretty good taste when it comes to aircraft (If not movies).

Hey dont forget that Lewis Hamilton is the brand ambassador for Lear Jet.  How cool is that decision?  He signs up in Montreal at the beginning of June right before the Canadian Grand Prix, goes out and wins it, then calmly goes on to win the US Grand Prix the following weekend.  I bet the Bombardier Exec who signed that deal is feeling pretty pleased with himself!

Basketball star Magic Johnson has a Aerospace Gulfstream 3 (twin-jet) (GLF3/Q)  Reg: N32MJ which is registered to Magic Johnson Entertainment Inc.

 

HB-JEO    Legacy    Rubens Barrichello

G-IOOX    Learjet   David Richards (Prodrive)

N1GN   Gulfstream   Greg Norman

N225EE   Gulfstream   Ernie Els

P4-MES   Boeing 767   Roman Abromavich

3A-MGA   Falcon 2000   Prince Albert of Monaco

G-GALX   Falcon 900   Richard Branson

G-HRDS   Gulfstream   Mohammed Al Fayed

 

OE-IFB = Flavio Briatore's (Renault F1 boss) Challenger 605, operated by VistaJet in Austria on his behalf.

Nigel Mansell took delivery of his new Citation Encore+ on 29/10/2007.

MSN 560-0773, operated for him by Ittur AB (Sweden) and registered under the ultra-secretive M-ANSL

!!

I thought he was getting a Sovereign..i know he leased an XLS for a while?? Image of his Encore here

 

please correct your list; N225EE is not Ernie Els aircraft/Tail Number.

G-NMRM Cessna CitationJet delivered this week to EBJ Operations Ltd reportedly to be operated/managed on behalf of Nigel Mansell.

Photo at:

http://www.biz-jets.com/p52928546.html

(if you look closely it might even be the man himself in the left hand seat!) 

With kind regards

Dan

www.Biz-Jets.com