Photos: 24 celebrity pilots who take to the skies

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Photos: 24 celebrity pilots who take to the skies

Photos: 24 celebrity pilots who take to the skies

Actor Harrison Ford is an avid pilot, with licenses to fly both airplanes and helicopters, and has served as a rescue helicopter pilot at the request of local fire and police departments. He survived a 1999 helicopter crash and a 2015 WWII single-passenger plane crash. (Photo By Getty Images)

Actor Tom Cruise got his pilot's license in 1994, inspired by his role in the film "Top Gun". He owns four planes, including a World War II P-51 Mustang fighter plane. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Acotr John Travolta is an avid pilot, with licenses to pilot several aircraft. He owns five airplanes, and has a Florida estate situated next to an airport. He piloted passengers to Australia for an episode of "Oprah," and wrote a book, "Propeller One-Way Night Coach," about his son Jett's first flight. (Photo by Chris Brunskill/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President George W. Bush served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush was a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II. (Photo by Gary C. Knapp/Getty Images)

Phil McGraw, aka Dr. Phil, is licensed to fly private airplanes. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is a licensed commerical pilot and flew his band around the wirld during the world tour in 2008. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Actor Dennis Quaid has a pilot's license and owns a Cessna Citation, which he regularly flies to his property in Montana. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for SXSW)

Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth got his helicopter's license in 2006. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen became licensed to pilot a helicopter in 2009 as part of her role as UN Environmental Ambassador. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

'80s actor Lorenzo Lamas eschewed acting to work as a helicopter tour pilot in California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Actor Morgan Freeman earned his pilot's license when he turned 65. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)

Singer Enrique Iglesias reportedly bought his own plane before he even got his pilot's license. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for AEG Live)

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Michael Dorn owns and flies an Air Force T-33 trainer jet, which he calls his "starship." (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Singer Jimmy Buffett has been flying for more than two decades, earning his license a year shy of his 40th birthday. He owns a Lake Renegade amphibian. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Country singer Alan Jackson has a license to fly private and multi-engine planes. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

Actor Kurt Russell Russell holds single/multi-engine and instrument pilot's licenses and is an Honorary Board Member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for The Hawn Foundation)

Singer and actor Kris Kristofferson got his pilot's license while in the U.S. Army in the 1960s. He also worked as a commercial pilot in Louisiana for a time. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Blackbird Productions)

Actor and director Clint Eastwood is an experienced pilot and reportedly pilots his own helicopter to filming sites to avoid traffic. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry earned his pilot's license while in the Navy and reportedly continues to fly. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Golfer Phil Mickelson flies his own Gulfstream G550, following in the footsteps of his Navy pilot father. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)

Actress Hilary Swank was inspired to earn her pilot's license while filming the 2009 film "Amelia," about pioneering female aviator Amelia Earhart. Photo Credit : Ken Woroner

Actor Chuck Norris earned his pilot's license when he served in the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s and still flies single-engine planes. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Golf legend Arnold Palmer poses with a plane used to deliver Air Mail that first sparked his interest in aviation. He made his final flight as pilot-in-command in 2011 after more than 55 years and 20,000 hours in the cockpit. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar,file)

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen became licensed to pilot a helicopter in 2009 as part of her role as UN Environmental Ambassador. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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Actor Harrison Ford is an avid pilot, with licenses to fly both airplanes and helicopters, and has served as a rescue helicopter pilot at the request of local fire and police departments. He survived a 1999 helicopter crash and a 2015 WWII single-passenger plane crash. (Photo By Getty Images)

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