In the late 60's I was in the Philippines to sell off some property from Pampanga Province. I was also catching hell at the airport (I owned the only aviation facility there) about my P-51. Hank (Henry) Perez, head of the cAA at the time said he was being pressured by the marcos gov. to collect some very high taxes, retroactively, on private aircraft over 300 horsepower. licenses in the PI are based on max. hp ratings and commercial aviation licenses are a LOT tougher to get there. I had told them to stuff it, and decided to totally remove myself from the area. A little birdie told me they were gonna "confiscate" the aircraft for taxes.
My last great act of defiance was to do a 'low level fly by" over the Malacanyang Palace grounds at MAYBE 350 feet and do a slow victory roll on the way over, then ran like holy hell at low altitude past Peter paul candy company on southern Luzon.
I imagine the prop wash wuz rather horrible.
i flew past Tawi Tawi to Sabah, North Borneo where I housed the bird for almost a year, then sold her.
A year later I met with Scott Bird on bangkok who told me a funny story....
that some idiot was being hunted by Marcos and had posted a reward. It seems that Mrs. Marcos was hosting a semi state dinnerluncheon on the palace lawn and Jaime Sin was in the middle of the prayer, when some idiot in a really noisy airplane buzzed the palace grounds blowing the crap out of the dinner/luncheon....
I dunno think they ever found the guy or the plane...
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