Air & Space magazine article:
Consider the stunt Robert Moriarty pulled off in 1984 in a Beechcraft V-tail Bonanza. On the morning of Saturday, March 31, he filed a plan to fly to Shannon, Ireland, took off from Paris’ Le Bourget airport, and headed for the north of Paris, where local air traffic control released him. Then he headed straight for the Eiffel Tower. Flying low and slow, he lined up to the south of the tower along a two-mile-long garden, aimed for the arch, then flew through with plenty of room to spare. Moriarty had a cameraman along, who got the whole thing on videotape ... Moriarty says the French were eminently reasonable about the whole thing. “If I had landed in Paris and said ‘Hey, look at me-aren’t I cool?’ I would have had some difficulty departing the country. As it was, we reached an agreement that as long as I stayed out of France for a few years no one would give me grief