Celeb Sitings at FBO's

Well, very often. After all, that's what happens over "on the other side of
the airport". A couple of those celebrity sightings is what made me realize
how nice it is to be able to use the FBO at major airports instead of
searching around for the lowest cost fuel and free tiedown at Podunk. It's
not the celebrity sightings that makes it nice but rather location,
facilities and services. It's a luxury to not have to go thru the cattle
chute, 'er I mean, the passenger terminal.

One that kind of cracked me up was seeing NASCAR celeb Richard Petty alight
from his King Air. The guy understands image marketing (or he's shy as
hell). As dusk settled on KGSO, he exited the King Air with hat and
sunglasses and western suit all in place. He was meeting no one and was
with no one except a small entourage but he stayed in character thru the
little FBO and out to whereever. I'm sure it's not a natural act to keep
the hat and shades on while moving one's carcass from King Air seat to bed
somewhere but he was up to it.

BTW, I love NASCAR even though I don't know squat about it other than they
all fly and that means top quality GA airports all over the Carolinas. Long
live NASCAR! GO PANTHERS!!

"Ben Smith" wrote in message
...
How often do you guys see celebrities, or otherwise famous people at your
FBO? A few months ago, I was at MSN, and saw a Gulfstream pull up and it
ended up being Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild video founder). He was doing
some filming on the UW Campus that night, and there were about 4 camera
guys
in his entourage. I had only recognized him because I saw an E channel
story about him the night before...

Others around MSN said they used to see Chris Farley often, back when he
was
alive and well. (His hometown was Madison)

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Ben
C-172 - N13258 @ 87Y