The USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile has announced two aircrafts displayed on its premises were made by anonymous donation by Jimmy Buffett.

The Grumman Goose and Boeing Stearman, both on display in the memorial park’s Medal of Honor Aircraft Pavilion, arrived at the park in 2022.

At the time, according to a post on the memorial park’s Facebook Page, Buffett wished to remain an anonymous donor.

The Mississippi native died on Friday after a four-year long battle with Merkel Cell Skin Cancer. He was 76. The park has placed a wreath and an iconic Hawaiian-styled shirt near the Grumman Goose in honor of Buffett.

Buffet was well-known as a sailor, but he was also a pilot. A college friend introduced Buffet to aviation, but with little extra cash to spend on lessons, the musician had to put the hobby on hold.

Later, after a few years of success, he would resume his dream of becoming a pilot, reports an article in Flying Mag, published a day after his death.

In addition to touring in two French-built aircrafts– Dassault Falcon 50 and later Falcon 900– Buffett owned and flew a succession of airplanes including a Grumman Albatross, a Boeing Stearman, and Cessna Caravan.

Buffet’s most famous airplane, according to his official website, was the 1954 Grumman HU-16 Albatross, dubbed the “Hemisphere Dancer.”

In 1996, Jamaican authorities shot the Hemisphere Dancer after mistaking it for a drug-runner plane while it taxied in the water near Negril. Seven years later, Buffett retired the plane and put it on display at the Lone Palm Airport outside of his Margaritaville Cafe in Orlando.

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