It's March 19, 1982 and Ozzie Osbourne and his band are in their tour bus driving from Knoxville to Orlando where they are scheduled to play the next day.
After driving most of the night, they stop at Flying Baron Estates airport in Leesburg to fix a broken air conditioning unit. Entertainment Coaches of America, from whom they have leased the bus, owns this property surrounded by large homes with private aircraft.Without permission, tour bus driver and private pilot Andrew Aycock "borrows" a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza and takes a couple of rides around the airport.
On his second tour he convinces Randy Rhoads, Ozzie's lead guitarist, and makeup artist Rachel Youngblood to go along. For fun, Aycock decides to "buzz" the tour bus to wake up the rest of the group who are sleeping. He makes two close passes but on the third pass the plane clips the top of the tour bus, breaking the wing and sending it spiraling into a nearby mansion where it explodes and kills all three on board.
Flying Baron Estates
Flying Baron Estates is sandwiched between Lake Denham and Hwy 44. If you go south on Whitney Road at Hwy 44 following the signs to the Paquette Tractor Museum you will get about as close as you can to the airstrip but you won't see much apart from an entrance to Entertainment Coaches of America on Casteen Road. The airport has a one mile long hard runway suitable for executive jets.
Entertainment Coaches of America
Entertainment Coaches of America specialize in making tour buses for entertainers. They may have as many as 200 buses available for lease. They are discrete about their prominent clientele who jet in and out although Willie Nelson and Yanni are known to be among them.