James Stephen Fossett net worth is
$700,000
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James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) was an American businessman, and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry, and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set 116 records in five different sports, 60 of which still stood when he disappeared.On September 3, 2007, Fossett was reported missing after the plane he was flying over the Great Basin Desert in Nevada failed to return. Despite a month of searches by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and others, Fossett could not be found and the search by CAP was called off on October 2, 2007. Privately funded and privately directed search efforts continued, however, but after a request from Fossett's wife, he was declared legally dead on February 15, 2008.On September 29, 2008, a hiker found Fossett's identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, and the crash site was discovered on October 1, 2008, 65 miles (100 km) due south from Flying-M Ranch where he took off, and 5.3 miles (8.5 km) due west (282 degrees) of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area's base operations, although his remains were not initially found. On November 3, 2008, tests conducted on two bones recovered about one-half mile (0.8 km) from the site of the crash produced a match to Fossett's DNA. Full Name | James Stephen Fossett |
Net Worth | $700,000 |
Date Of Birth | April 22, 1944 |
Died | 2007-09-03 |
Death Cause | Plane crash and he was gay |
Place Of Birth | Jackson, Tennessee, USA |
Profession | Camera Department |
Education | Stanford University |
Nicknames | Steve Fossett, Fossett, Steve, Old man steve so bad at naming |
Star Sign | Taurus |
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1 | Madera County Sheriff's Department confirmed that the wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca was found at the base of a mountainside, about 90 miles south from where he took off. While most of the fuselage disintegrated on impact, his body was not found. A week earlier, a hiker found Fossett's ID and cash near the site, which were turned over to police after efforts to contact his widow were unsuccessful. Fossett was declared legally dead on 15 February 2008. (1 October 2008). |
2 | Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2007. |
3 | After the plane he was flying over the Nevada desert failed to return and he was reported missing on 3 September 2007, his wife requested that he be declared legally dead (26 November 2007). After a court hearing, he was declared legally dead on 15 February 2008 by Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Malak. |
4 | Good friends with billionaires Richard Branson and Barron Hilton, grandfather of Paris Hilton. |
5 | Owned homes in Beaver Creek, Colorado and Chicago as well as a vacation home in Carmel, California. |
6 | Succeeded in becoming the first person to achieve a solo balloon flight around the world on his sixth attempt (2002). |
7 | Circumnavigated the globe nonstop and unrefueled in 76 hours, 45 minutes in the GlobalFlyer, also setting the record for the longest flight by any aircraft in history with a distance of 26,389 miles (2006). |
8 | American aviator, sailor and adventurer, best known for breaking 116 world records in five different sports. |
Camera Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Nova | 1997 | TV Series documentary camera operator - 1 episode | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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CNN Future Summit: World in Motion | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
Explorations | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Great Balloon Race | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Dateline NBC | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Balloonist (segment "Out of Gas") |
Known for movies
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