Travolta sues over ban on his 707 at private airport
John Travolta sued the owners of the airport outside his exclusive "fly-in" community in Ocala, Fla., claiming they lied to the Federal Aviation Administration to keep him from landing his Boeing 707 there.
In the federal lawsuit filed this past week, the actor claims Greystone Airport owners James and Christine Garemore falsely changed the airport master record in 2006 to indicate that it could not support large airplanes.
Travolta has a home at the Jumbolair Aviation Estates in Ocala and wanted to fly his Boeing 707 there. It is an affluent, 550-acre community with a $6 million runway -- the largest paved, private airfield in the United States.
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