Son Maddox has become a trained pilot, following in Angelina Jolie’s footsteps
The ‘Maria’ actress began flying in 2004 to win Maddox over, and he has since accompanied her on the sky.
No, not that family business. Maddox Jolie-Pitt is entering it. The 23-year-old son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is pursuing a career in aviation, perhaps in the footsteps of his mother.
On the December 5 broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jolie, 49, revealed to Jimmy Fallon that she is a pilot. Additionally, my son Maddox is undergoing training to become a pilot. In fact, he is now a pilot.
Actually, Maddox was the one who initially encouraged the Maria actress to go to the skies. To surprise her then-young son, the Oscar winner began flying for the first time in 2004.
Jolie said to PEOPLE at the time, «Mad is always in awe when he sees a plane.» «I’ll be like Superman to him if I can actually fly a plane by the time he’s four.»
After obtaining her pilot’s license in December 2004, Jolie purchased a Cirrus SR22-G2, a single-engine aircraft, in early 2005. Jolie also kept Maddox close while in the air by wearing the letters «MX» in her tail number, which was a tribute to her son. While the couple lived in Canada, she studied with an instructor and her 60-year-old ex-husband Pitt.
Jolie bonded with other female flyers-to-be at the local hangar, according to a source who told PEOPLE at the time that she was a «completely competent, confident flyer.»
