Celebrity pilot, Jimmy Buffett

Singer (Margaritaville, Cheeseburger in Paradise, etc), songwriter, author, fly fisherman and sailor…

Jimmy Buffett has more than one plane, and since the 70s had had even more… He started out on a Lake Renegade (Lady of the Waters), crashed his Grumman Goose on takeoff near Martha’s Vineyard, Boston, retired his famouls Grumman Albatross (Hemisphere Dancer) to Orlando FL Margaritaville on display, now flies a Stearman, a new corp jet and a large Cessna turboprop float plane… He flies all over the place… and writes about his adventures in his songs and books. He is a big fan of pioneer seaplane aviation ie Pan Am China Clippers… Landing his Albatross in Jamaica a number of yrs ago, he got shot up by the local authories thinking he was a drug runner… He wrote about it in his song Jamaica Mistakah…. LOL

Jimmy has numerous restaurants and cafes in the US and Caribbean. They each have huge seaplanes hanging from their ceilings… In Orlando there is about a 40ft China Clipper replica hanging…

He also has a vintage Pan American China Clipper manufacturer’s model hanging over his office desk in his Palm Beach FL office…

So, he is a busy pilot and big fan of aviation… He is not the goof off boozer and beach bum many think he is… He makes money at ever turn and supports his flying, boating and adventuring hobbies…