John Travolta shares rare throwback of him at 15 from his school days

John Travolta has shared a rare flashback from his school years before finding stardom, when he was just fifteen. 

On Thursday, the 66-year-old posted the snap to Instagram, which showed a fresh-faced Travolta sitting in a room with his school friends. 

The Grease star explained to fans in the caption: ‘When I was 15 years old, my school offered an aviation class which started by second career.’

Travolta is a certified private pilot who owns multiple aircrafts, and has two runways that lead directly to his front door at his home in Florida. 

His private fleet has included multiple Gulfstream aircrafts, an Eclipse 500 very light jet, as well as his most well known aircraft, a former Qantas Boeing 707. 

Last year, Travolta explained that ‘paper work got in the way’ of his donation of his Qantas Boeing 707 airplane to an Australian museum. 

An honourary pilot for Qantas, the Pulp Fiction star donated the plane to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) three years ago. 

In a 2013, Travolta claimed that he flew over 300 hours a year, saying: ‘I fly almost everyday. I fly from a low of three times a week to a high of five times a week. I am really flying quite a bit.’ 

He named his ‘707 Jett Clipper Ella’ aircraft after his children Jett and Ella, and Clipper in homage to legendary airline Pan Am, that used Clipper in all their aircraft names. 

Jett tragically died at age 16 from a seizure while on a Christmas vacation in the Bahamas in January 2009. 

This year, Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston honored their late son on Instagram, on what would have been his 28th birthday.