Just prior to his death, the late flip-flop-clad crooner Jimmy Buffett– a Pascagoula boy like myself– passed on a pair of his treasured aircraft to live on in posterity to the USS Alabama museum in Mobile.
They included his circa 1941 Boeing E75 Stearman (N43320) which flew with the USAAF in WWII, and his ex-RCAF circa 1939 Grumman Goose G21 amphibian (N48550), both of which he acquired in the early 2000s. Importantly for fans, the Stearman was flown by Buffett in his 2004 video for Trip Around The Sun.
Buffett, who requested that the donation be anonymous, was honored by the USS Alabama museum over the weekend by installing flowers and a Hawaiian-styled shirt on the aircraft, who finally disclosed their provenance.
The Goose has been restored to its RCAF WWII livery from Buffett’s more, um, colorful, paint job
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And with that, I’ll leave you with Son of a Son of a Sailor.