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Morgan Freeman Gets A Jet For Christmas

One of our favorite celebrity pilots actor Morgan Freeman has a new toy for the holidays, a fancy new private jet. Gulf News reports that Freeman bought the SJ30 plane which was produced by Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of United Arab Emirates-based Emivest. Earlier this year as my colleague Jared Paul Stern reported, the SJ30 set a world speed record from London to Dubai in just 7hr 7 min including a fuel stop in Istanbul. The six-seater can retain sea level cabin pressure at 41,000 ft., reducing jet lag, and can fly more than 2,800 miles nonstop at speeds of up to 630 mph. It sells for approximately $8 million.

Freeman flew the plane from Los Angeles to Dubai to attend a a press conference at the Executive Flight Center at the Dubai Airport Free Zone to announce the sale of the new SJ30 from Emivest to Freeman. The Gulf News article says that Freeman is expected to stay in the UAE until December 27.

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Is Everyone In Hollywood A Pilot?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Add another esteemed member to the list of celebrity pilots. Joining Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is Morgan Freeman. Freeman is so interested in planes that he recently made the pilgrimage to AirVenture 2007 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin to check out the planes. Freeman, who has been interested in planes since he was a teenager, had his first lesson in 2002. He now flies a Cessna 414 and a Citation 501SP. At AirVenture 2007 he took the helicopter tour and when asked said the plane he most wished he could fly is the F-86 Sabre.

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