The late musician’s iconic airplane is leaving the favored Orlando location.
A significant piece of Jimmy Buffett historical past is leaving its residence in Orlando, Florida, however fortunately for Parrotheads, the departure is short-term. In line with WDW Information, Margaritaville in Orlando’s Common Metropolis Stroll is eradicating the singer’s iconic airplane from the locale.
“The Hemisphere Dancer has been briefly faraway from Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville for refurbishment. She’s going to return to CityWalk Orlando subsequent yr,” Margaritaville administration stated in an announcement. The airplane had been hinted at elimination for a bit, with photographers capturing it being dismantled earlier than the official assertion.
The Grumman HU-16 Albatross seaplane comes from 1955 as a U.S. Navy automobile, later bought by Buffett in 1995 and restored. The singer renamed the airplane the Hemisphere Dancer, resulting in a number of adventures for the singer and a scary shut name with the Jamaican police in 1996. That is when Buffett, his household, U2’s Bono, and Island Information founder Chris Blackwell had been on board and shot at by the police for suspicion of smuggling medicine.
It is usually featured in his memoir, A Pirate Seems at Fifty, the place he described a number of of the adventures together with his household flying across the Caribbean and the Americas on his fiftieth birthday.
Buffett sadly handed away in 2023 on the age of 76, leaving the airplane behind at its new residence in Orlando, the place it has remained for years and will stay as soon as it makes a triumphant return to the Metropolis Stroll.
