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Hemisphere Dancer was singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett's personal seaplane. A Grumman HU-16 Albatross flying boat, former U.S. Navy Bureau Number (BuNo) 137928 and civil registration number N928J. [1] The aircraft is central to the action in Buffett's best-selling memoir A Pirate Looks at Fifty. [2]
Jimmy Buffett points at his 1939 Grumman Goose being piloted by Bill Howell as it lands at a small airstrip near Lake Okeechobee. Howell worked as Buffett's pilot for nine years.
Data from Albatross: Amphibious Airborne Angel, United States Navy Aircraft since 1911, Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59 Grumman Albatross: A History of the Legendary Seaplane General characteristics Crew: 4-6 Capacity: 10 passengers Length: 62 ft 10 in (19.15 m) Wingspan: 96 ft 8 in (29.46 m) Height: 25 ft 10 in (7.87 m) Wing area: 1,035 sq ft (96.2 m 2) Airfoil: NACA 23017 Empty ...
On January 16, 1996, Buffett's Grumman HU-16 airplane named Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican authorities, while taxiing in the waters near Negril. The Jamaican police believed the craft to be smuggling marijuana, though Buffett claims their main interest for taking the trip was for eating Jamaican-style chicken .
Jimmy Buffett had long planned to be a surprise guest at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. “He was going to be part of (the festival), as of two weeks ago,” said the esteemed ...
In 206, Jimmy Buffett apeared at the red carpet premiere of the movie “Hoot,” based on a Carl Hiaasen book. The event was at the Sunrise Las Olas Cinema in, Fort Lauderdale. Here, Logan Lerman ...
Buffett was born on December 25, 1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, [23] and he spent part of his childhood in Mobile and Fairhope, Alabama.He was the son of Mary Lorraine (née Peets) (died September 25, 2003) [24] and James Delaney Buffett, Jr. (died May 1, 2003), who worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
"The beloved singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett passed away at his home in Sag Harbor, Long Island on Friday September 1, 2023 surrounded by family and friends. Buffett, 76, had been fighting Merkel ...