After his initial celluloid success. Travolta purchased 2 California properties, once simple house in Studio City and the other El Adobe Tajiguas a 1,5 million, 17-acre, 5 bedrooms Spanish Style Ranch in the hills north of Santa Barbara. He bought a 1955 Cadillac Couple deVille. He disposed of the Santa Barbara property in 88, the Studio City house long having been sold. He also has lived in a rented house in Carmel, in 90's he had purchased a home in suburban Daytona Beach, Florida, and a mansion on an island in Penobscot Bay, off the west Maine.

  He loves flying, he said : "Both flying and acting meant being out of the crowd to me" when he made SNF and Grease, the apartment Travolta maintained in West Hollywood had dozens of model airplanes. But to him, planes were more than toys, after his appearing in Brodway "Over Here!" he took flying lesson at Teterboro Airport.

His family home was near the flight paths in and out of New York's LaGuardia Airport, and at night he would lie in bed and let his imagination take flight. "I used to lay awake at night because I wasn't a good sleeper and I would hear the rumble of propellers overhead and things like thst. With the jet age, there comes the transition. But when I was anywhere from five to nine, yhe big, heavy propeller airlines were lumbering overhead. I'd sit there and think, 'Where are those people going? If the little light over the seat was on, were they reading a book? Are they sleeping? Is it the kind of plane you can sleep on? What time will they get there?' So, I'd be right up there with them. In school too. I'd be sitting in the class and I'd look out the window and the the see this plane lumbering up and I'd think, 'Wow that's west. Is the plane going to Chicago or Kansas or Las Vegas?' Somewhere out there.." By the mid 1970's, he had earned a license to single-engine plane. His first plane was a Cessna 414 .

Then, he has owned other jets and propeller planes, including a reconditioned commercial DC-3, an AirCouple, a Lock heed Jet star 731, a Constellation, a Learjet, a vintage Vampire British fighter, and a Gulfstream 2 executive jet.

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