John Travolta sues to land his 707

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 22, 2007

OCALA - John Travolta sued the owners of the airport outside an exclusive "fly-in" community, claiming they lied to the Federal Aviation Administration to keep him from landing his Boeing 707 there.

In the federal lawsuit filed last 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's a 550-acre community with a $6-million runway - the largest paved, private airfield in the nation.

"The runway is not suitable for heavy aircraft. It is cracking and breaking," James Garemore said Friday. "They are bringing this lawsuit against me, and all I was doing was trying to maintain safety here."

Todd Hopson, Garemore's attorney, said his client never stopped Travolta from landing on the 7,550-foot runway.

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