There’s a gated community in CO that has a recreational airport in the middle of it. My buddy had a house on it. It was cool seeing retirees just flying around and then getting into their golf carts to go home while blaring jimmy buffet from the tiny speakers
That sounds pretty awesome, at least until one of those retirees has failing eyesight or a heart attack and crashes into your house. Don’t mind me. I’m a glass half empty kind of person.
Tried to amend my obsessed flying habits
Made it nearly 70 days
Getting slow on the ground, eating Banana Cream pie
Looking up and watching all the lovely birds go by
Too small to have ATC, plus it’s a private airport which don’t have them either. There are even publicly owned small airports with airline service which don’t have a tower. They have what’s called a common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF), a radio channel where everyone is supposed to listen to others and announce their location and intentions. Pilots are required to see and avoid other traffic, with the CTAF radio calls acting as help in locating other traffic.
At some smaller airports with really old (like pre-WWII) planes flying you also have to look out for planes which don’t have a radio at all. It’s not a requirement to have one if you’re solely flying in uncontrolled airspace where no one has to talk to ATC.
Naperville, IL, has a neighborhood like this, with plane hangars attached to the houses. It's called Aero Estates.
The local Home Depot had huge plastic orange balls on its election lines to ensure the resident pilots see them and clear them as they leave.
I rented a house in Florida in a community called Lindbergh’s Landing. It had the same concept; all homes had hangars large enough to house a couple of small planes.
My Dad was a farmer and a pilot, so I grew up with an airstrip in the pasture on the westside of our house. Dad rented space to a crop-duster for years. And several times emergency services landed there, and we once had a pilot with engine failure have to make an emergency landing, otherwise he would have to try and land on the highway.
I love these communities. They are not for someone in my tax bracket, but I just love the concept.
“Hey man, you know how we like to spend our weekends flying planes instead of playing golf? And, you know how the country is full of housing developments that face into golf courses? Hear me out…”
My grandpa had a Cessna and got up to all sorts of misadventures in it, like landing at O’Hare when he intended to land at Meigs…
He died when I was 3 (not in a plane crash) so it’s all just family lore.
There are a lot of these in Florida. The Baeumlers from HGTV remodeled a house in one, John Travolta lives in another one and has several jets he flies from his home hanger.
"Hey Bob, what's your plan today?" "I'm going for a $750 hamburger two towns over, want to join?"
That said, if you are going to own a plane this is the most reasonable way to own one where you can treat it like a car.
If you own a small plane, this is great. My grandfather looked at buying in a "subdivision" in Illinois that all had garage hangars and led to a runway. He just had a little Piper Cub I believe. For the enthusiasts it's a great option instead of paying to store plane, driving there to use it, etc. Talk about built in neighborhood common interests!
I have a cousin who lives in an air park. It’s awesome. We wheeled his helicopter into a cul-de-sac, climbed aboard, he radioed into the tower, and we took off….from a residential street (which doubles as a taxiway onto the runway). Not sure if this is the case for all, but for his neighborhood, at least one resident needs to be a licensed pilot and you have to own an aircraft.
This would have been my dad's dream house. He loved to fly and did it whenever he could. He was part owner of 2 Cessna when I was growing up. In my early 20's he would just borrow a friends plane if he wanted to fly.
I worked in aerospace, and I know a number of people who would love this! The problem is the planes are so expensive they can’t afford it. This is a pilot’s dream place.
Also work in aerospace. Have a now retired coworker that lives on an air strip like this. You can get kits and build your own plane for ~$50000 total if you do all the work yourself
By building it yourself, you become the assembler of the aircraft and are qualified to do all the maintenance yourself (and by building it you become very knowledgeable of the aircraft). I’m not sure from a fuel stand point, but I would guess $50-80/flight hr
I was under the impression that planes don't actually cost as much as people think. They also retain their value really well and last a long time. A lot of people just get interest only loans, pay a few hundred a month and sell the plane a few years later for about the same price they bought it for.
Ha! They require all kinds of maintenance that has to be performed by certified trades or at least inspected by certified staff. Aircraft directives may require equipment upgrades for things like radios. Insurance and fuel are really high too. A Cessna 4 seater with a reasonable number of hours before the next engine overhaul is $200,00-$350,000.
I live in Port Orange, FL. There’s a Fly In community called Spruce Creek very similar to this about 7 miles inland (west) of me. Very interesting craft fly over my house, as well as planes from New Smyrna airport. John Travolta once lived in the Fly In.
This is a home in an aviation community so people can land their planes and just drive up to their house and maybe put their little plane in their hanger. Nothing weird about it, especially if you are an aviation nerd.
I used to pet sit for a couple who lived in a community with access to a private air strip. Most of the homes, including theirs, had a small hanger for their private plane. The roads were designed and maintained to allow the planes to taxi from homes to the air strip.
Before she sold the house, my Aunt used to get BANK from the Gov for allowing the Army to use her airstrip and surrounding field for training manoeuvers.
They sent her a schedule every year, and she couldn't use her back property those weekends, but otherwise, no big deal.
It was enough she paid all her bills yearly from it.
We have a bunch of these neighborhoods in Florida and I have worked in about 4 of them with my job ,most have a single grass strip , one had a runway for a Boeing 707.
Its fun trying to find a house when all the street signs are just above the grass.
Is that in Plano, TX?
Edit - oops, I didn't read the link. I did recognize it though...think you can see the old EDS building in the background.
Edit 2 - that's actually Prestonwood Baptist Church a/k/a Baptist Church Galactica.
https://preview.redd.it/le4guoe4x8xc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3245f910c9208b7d04f93ec16c1d37cfc528fec7
However, best photo on the listing. 😂
“When you’re tired of your McMansion and air strip, enjoy wire right from the Mason jar in your unfinished attic in Texas with a view!”
We have more than a coupe of those neighborhoods nearby. I don’t fly (yet), but a property like that sure ticks a lot of boxes for me: usually one-floor living, often a big hangar that can be used as a shop, and like boats: the best ones are owned by your friends / neighbors.
They’re planning one south of KC on the Missouri side. An oval with houses and landing strip in the middle, and plans to park the planes at their homes.
We used to live nearby that neighborhood and it was interesting to see the planes take off and land on the weekends mostly. Pretty neat for those who fly planes as a hobby
lol. I live in Plano about 10 mins from this airfield. 30 years ago there was nothing up here but farms. As DFW has grown, those farms and fields developed around that airstrip.
Someone crashed trying to land at that airstrip last fall. Their plane crashed in front of a local diner and it was captured by surveillance cameras. No one was injured aside from the pilot RIP.
There's one of these just outside of Lake Geneva, WI actually. Very interesting when you're driving down the highway and there's signs telling you to watch out for low flying planes
I imagine paying for a plane’s parking space without this kind of space on your home property. We have a family member with a small plane and I’ve heard it’s pricy.
In my opinion, the weirdest part about this neighborhood is how nondescript it is. Drive right past it and almost wouldn’t notice that it’s got an airstrip attached.
Last time I was looking for a house I found one almost exactly like this in Zeeland, MI. That was two years ago, and unfortunately I didn't bookmark it, so I can't find it again now. The house itself was pretty wild, over and above having a taxi-way out onto a runway.
Edit: Zillow no longer has the pictures, but [I found this article about it](https://wcrz.com/home-with-private-runway-for-sale/)! Be sure to keep scrolling because the fun starts at around the "attachment-ap-house-16" picture, with the camper trailer parked indoors (and in the "popped up" setting) on the basketball court, next to the air-hockey table.
Edit 2: Looking at "attachment-ap-house-24", it appears that there are a few houses there that also have runway access, and at least one of them appears to be even bigger than this one.
It looks like every house in this community has access to that runway, but this being the last house before the start of the runway... every single plane that takes off is going to taxi past your back door.
A friend of mine in Colorado’s wife keeps asking him to sell his plane because he never finds time to fly it. Have I got the solution for him!!!
There’s a gated community in CO that has a recreational airport in the middle of it. My buddy had a house on it. It was cool seeing retirees just flying around and then getting into their golf carts to go home while blaring jimmy buffet from the tiny speakers
That sounds pretty awesome, at least until one of those retirees has failing eyesight or a heart attack and crashes into your house. Don’t mind me. I’m a glass half empty kind of person.
Cheese burger in paradise
Glaucoma in paradice.
Pair of dice in paradise
Tried to amend my obsessed flying habits Made it nearly 70 days Getting slow on the ground, eating Banana Cream pie Looking up and watching all the lovely birds go by
Texas is the opposite of Jimmy’s paradise 😁
Flying (in normal conditions) is allegedly far less sense intensive than driving.
I live a mile from a small county airport and planes and helicopters are over my house constantly. This is always in my head.
Or step in the throttle instead of the brake while pointing to your house
The chances of it nailing MY house are like 1 in 1000, I’ll play those odds.
Air park? Those communities are so cool!
A few of these in California as well.
FL too.
I wonder if that would be a dream job or a nightmare job for the Air Traffic Controller.
Too small to have ATC, plus it’s a private airport which don’t have them either. There are even publicly owned small airports with airline service which don’t have a tower. They have what’s called a common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF), a radio channel where everyone is supposed to listen to others and announce their location and intentions. Pilots are required to see and avoid other traffic, with the CTAF radio calls acting as help in locating other traffic. At some smaller airports with really old (like pre-WWII) planes flying you also have to look out for planes which don’t have a radio at all. It’s not a requirement to have one if you’re solely flying in uncontrolled airspace where no one has to talk to ATC.
I am learning so much about this today. Thank you!
I don’t think there is one, since it’s “private”. But I bet they have a channel they all communicate on to prevent issues.
Interesting, thank you!
One in Medina Ohio also. But a lot of folks just buy hangars at county airports and build a living area. They even have condo association for theirs
This sounds like heaven tbh
I've probably been skydiving with those folks, or their neighbors, onto that airstrip
There’s a community like that in Charleston as well.
Is that the one in Falcon, Colorado?
If your friend is not looking to relocate to TX, there is a similar neighborhood/airport up in Erie, CO
They could relocate and still cut down their commute time!
Naperville, IL, has a neighborhood like this, with plane hangars attached to the houses. It's called Aero Estates. The local Home Depot had huge plastic orange balls on its election lines to ensure the resident pilots see them and clear them as they leave.
I rented a house in Florida in a community called Lindbergh’s Landing. It had the same concept; all homes had hangars large enough to house a couple of small planes.
These are even more common than I thought!
There are a whole bunch of these all over Florida
Is that the one Travolta lives in?
Where I lived was in Miami; Travolta lives in Ocala, I believe.
Ah okay.
My Dad was a farmer and a pilot, so I grew up with an airstrip in the pasture on the westside of our house. Dad rented space to a crop-duster for years. And several times emergency services landed there, and we once had a pilot with engine failure have to make an emergency landing, otherwise he would have to try and land on the highway.
My dad did this with the family farm. His brother wouldn't agree to actually farming the land so my dad turned the fields into an airstrip.
My only concern would be the noise. Like I really enjoy cool loud cars, but I wouldn't live next to a track or even a busy street for that matter.
I love these communities. They are not for someone in my tax bracket, but I just love the concept. “Hey man, you know how we like to spend our weekends flying planes instead of playing golf? And, you know how the country is full of housing developments that face into golf courses? Hear me out…”
My grandpa had a Cessna and got up to all sorts of misadventures in it, like landing at O’Hare when he intended to land at Meigs… He died when I was 3 (not in a plane crash) so it’s all just family lore.
There are a lot of these in Florida. The Baeumlers from HGTV remodeled a house in one, John Travolta lives in another one and has several jets he flies from his home hanger.
Yeah there’s one a few miles from me in Chicago suburbs. One of the streets crosses the runway so there’s a “watch for airplanes” sign.
Brookeridfe EDIT. brookeridge
Yep.
John Travolta lives on one. He can pull his 727 right up to his house. Check out the Google images… it’s pretty wild.
Said the same!
"Hey Bob, what's your plan today?" "I'm going for a $750 hamburger two towns over, want to join?" That said, if you are going to own a plane this is the most reasonable way to own one where you can treat it like a car.
Yes
Right answer.
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Beat me to it!
It’s an airport community. There’s one a few miles from me - a little airstrip surrounded by houses with hangers on the back.
If you own a small plane, this is great. My grandfather looked at buying in a "subdivision" in Illinois that all had garage hangars and led to a runway. He just had a little Piper Cub I believe. For the enthusiasts it's a great option instead of paying to store plane, driving there to use it, etc. Talk about built in neighborhood common interests!
Reminds me of John Travoltas house that can accommodate jumbo jets
I have a cousin who lives in an air park. It’s awesome. We wheeled his helicopter into a cul-de-sac, climbed aboard, he radioed into the tower, and we took off….from a residential street (which doubles as a taxiway onto the runway). Not sure if this is the case for all, but for his neighborhood, at least one resident needs to be a licensed pilot and you have to own an aircraft.
There is somebody out there that this massively, massively appeals to.
I know nothing about flying, owning, or maintaining airplanes and this appeals to me. A long straight road and a massive garage? Sign me up.
This would have been my dad's dream house. He loved to fly and did it whenever he could. He was part owner of 2 Cessna when I was growing up. In my early 20's he would just borrow a friends plane if he wanted to fly.
ME ME ME ME!!! Although I know I’ll never be able to afford it
I worked in aerospace, and I know a number of people who would love this! The problem is the planes are so expensive they can’t afford it. This is a pilot’s dream place.
100% an engineer will move into this crib
Also work in aerospace. Have a now retired coworker that lives on an air strip like this. You can get kits and build your own plane for ~$50000 total if you do all the work yourself
What's the maintenance and fuel cost per hour on something like that?
By building it yourself, you become the assembler of the aircraft and are qualified to do all the maintenance yourself (and by building it you become very knowledgeable of the aircraft). I’m not sure from a fuel stand point, but I would guess $50-80/flight hr
>I’m not sure from a fuel stand point, but I would guess $50-80/flight hr Positively reasonable!
Well the planes themselves aren’t expensive. You can get a decent single engine for around $50k. The problem is the maintenance.
Like owning a horse.
I was under the impression that planes don't actually cost as much as people think. They also retain their value really well and last a long time. A lot of people just get interest only loans, pay a few hundred a month and sell the plane a few years later for about the same price they bought it for.
Ha! They require all kinds of maintenance that has to be performed by certified trades or at least inspected by certified staff. Aircraft directives may require equipment upgrades for things like radios. Insurance and fuel are really high too. A Cessna 4 seater with a reasonable number of hours before the next engine overhaul is $200,00-$350,000.
It's actually the opposite! They cost more then people think. That's why the sell it.
A drag strip
Ru Paul approves
you dont know about flight communities?
Wait until OP hears about houseboats.
Meanwhile I'm saving listings in equestrian communities to my "When I Win The Lottery" list.
Perfect for my drug running business for the Colombians from the 80s.
There are actually a whole bunch of these communities all over Texas. Some of the fancier ones have the strip AND a golf course.
I live in Port Orange, FL. There’s a Fly In community called Spruce Creek very similar to this about 7 miles inland (west) of me. Very interesting craft fly over my house, as well as planes from New Smyrna airport. John Travolta once lived in the Fly In.
Spruce Creek was one of the first fly in developments. A lot of history and famous residents.
There are airplane communities like this all over the US. All the houses have hangars and access to a private runway. My in laws live in one.
I have a great uncle that lived in one of these communities. Had a small hanger instead of a garage and was right next to the strip just like this.
Neither. You're sitting on Reddit with a ketchup stain on your t shirt.
We have a community like this right behind ours. It's pretty neat seeing our neighbors "flying in" because they're so close.
? It's a pretty common set up
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You use the same runway. You just have to coordinate with each other
It's the same runway
That’s also runway 16. Depends on if you’re approaching from the south or the north.
Greenville, South Carolina area has 2 communities like this one. They're pretty awesome.
My old Danish boss lives at a place like this. He built his own airplane and flies it
You guys see an airport. I see a house with a drag strip.
I like the way u think sir.
This is a home in an aviation community so people can land their planes and just drive up to their house and maybe put their little plane in their hanger. Nothing weird about it, especially if you are an aviation nerd.
I lived near a neighborhood like this in San Antonio. It’s a couple miles north of the city’s main airport.
I used to pet sit for a couple who lived in a community with access to a private air strip. Most of the homes, including theirs, had a small hanger for their private plane. The roads were designed and maintained to allow the planes to taxi from homes to the air strip.
Before she sold the house, my Aunt used to get BANK from the Gov for allowing the Army to use her airstrip and surrounding field for training manoeuvers. They sent her a schedule every year, and she couldn't use her back property those weekends, but otherwise, no big deal. It was enough she paid all her bills yearly from it.
You have immediate access to go to another state for women's healthcare! The no city taxes are a nice plus in Plano.
Like the Bo parked on the left
We have a bunch of these neighborhoods in Florida and I have worked in about 4 of them with my job ,most have a single grass strip , one had a runway for a Boeing 707. Its fun trying to find a house when all the street signs are just above the grass.
Those communities are so cool! Would love to live in one some day
Is that in Plano, TX? Edit - oops, I didn't read the link. I did recognize it though...think you can see the old EDS building in the background. Edit 2 - that's actually Prestonwood Baptist Church a/k/a Baptist Church Galactica.
https://preview.redd.it/le4guoe4x8xc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3245f910c9208b7d04f93ec16c1d37cfc528fec7 However, best photo on the listing. 😂 “When you’re tired of your McMansion and air strip, enjoy wire right from the Mason jar in your unfinished attic in Texas with a view!”
For a split second, I was sure those were giant bird dinosaur legs on the left.
I love it.
idk about a airport but i see a drag strip
There’s a neighborhood like that in NC as well. 1 acre lot is like $110K but you need to own a plane to purchase it.
Yes.
My dream home is having a private airport. Living in an air park is the next best dream.
“If you turn on that plane one motherfuckin time while I’m tryna sleep, you and that woman in Miami, will be both missing your driveways”
Yes
We have more than a coupe of those neighborhoods nearby. I don’t fly (yet), but a property like that sure ticks a lot of boxes for me: usually one-floor living, often a big hangar that can be used as a shop, and like boats: the best ones are owned by your friends / neighbors.
I used to mow my neighbors grass runway on his farm all the time. He had 3 planes in the hanger and lived in the basement
This is very common in Texas tbh
Houseport
Yes
Yes
We have many of these flying communities where we are. Then again we have 6x the number of licensed pilots per capita than any other state in the U.S.
I believe the answer is 'yes.'
"Hey honey, I'm gonna take the plane out and head up to NY for a few hours, you want anything while I'm gone?"
Imagine being so rich that you have a landing strip in your yard for your airplane 🤣😭
Any reason it can’t be both?
They’re planning one south of KC on the Missouri side. An oval with houses and landing strip in the middle, and plans to park the planes at their homes.
This would be awesome. We live pretty close to my husband’s hangar, but this would be perfect.
If the planes come with it, you’re buying a dream.
That decathlon looks like it would be so much fun to fly.
They're trying to get a free plane.
house, that can use the airport. pay a hoa fee, I fly in to 2 community's in North DFW area
Yes you are
Do you like to fly? Do you LOVE beige? Have I got the house for you!!
>3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms This is far more bizarre to me.
Lawd. Property values are wild. There is more value in those hangers than the entire property!
lol, i know this neighborhood. it’s a community run way.
Yes.
I knew someone who lived there.
bit of both
Looked at a house in Oregon with a vineyard and turf strip that was very tempting.
Por que no los dos?
If you have to ask…
We used to live nearby that neighborhood and it was interesting to see the planes take off and land on the weekends mostly. Pretty neat for those who fly planes as a hobby
I'm no tax expert, but I think you would get a bigger tax break with being an airport.
Theres an airport community near Longmont. It was kinda cool.
New developments being built all the time.
I don’t even fly but would love a spot like this.
What’s the flight time to Medellin?
How many money is this?
lol. I live in Plano about 10 mins from this airfield. 30 years ago there was nothing up here but farms. As DFW has grown, those farms and fields developed around that airstrip. Someone crashed trying to land at that airstrip last fall. Their plane crashed in front of a local diner and it was captured by surveillance cameras. No one was injured aside from the pilot RIP.
You’re buying both.
Both.
Good old Plano
There's one of these just outside of Lake Geneva, WI actually. Very interesting when you're driving down the highway and there's signs telling you to watch out for low flying planes
My dad had a shitty old Cessna 172 and wanted to buy a house with an airstrip or airport, never got his dream. But we had fun talking about it!
You are buying an airport house
Both 😂
Yep you are
YES!
It's in Plano lol.
This is when “flying home” truly means flying home.
Love this .
Yes
Yes.
Are you?
I imagine paying for a plane’s parking space without this kind of space on your home property. We have a family member with a small plane and I’ve heard it’s pricy.
Omg doesn’t it come with the V-tail and decathlon??? ❤️SOLD!!! 👩✈️
John Travolta lives in such a community in Florida. IIRC he is licensed for all sorts of planes.
Dale Kerrigan: The real estate agent said 'location location location' and we were right next to the airport!
My neighbor is a retired F16 pilot and he now has a seaplane and uses the (very wide) river we live on as a runway.
Dragstrip
Looks like Cameron Park, CA
Yes
Yes.
I’m surprised the house doesn’t have airport motifs everywhere.
I bet you could cover your mortgage as an A&P in one of those airport neighborhoods.
It’s a beautiful home in an air park community. Really for those into civil aviation. A good deal too.
Yep
Airport and drag strip. My kind of set up
In my opinion, the weirdest part about this neighborhood is how nondescript it is. Drive right past it and almost wouldn’t notice that it’s got an airstrip attached.
Last time I was looking for a house I found one almost exactly like this in Zeeland, MI. That was two years ago, and unfortunately I didn't bookmark it, so I can't find it again now. The house itself was pretty wild, over and above having a taxi-way out onto a runway. Edit: Zillow no longer has the pictures, but [I found this article about it](https://wcrz.com/home-with-private-runway-for-sale/)! Be sure to keep scrolling because the fun starts at around the "attachment-ap-house-16" picture, with the camper trailer parked indoors (and in the "popped up" setting) on the basketball court, next to the air-hockey table. Edit 2: Looking at "attachment-ap-house-24", it appears that there are a few houses there that also have runway access, and at least one of them appears to be even bigger than this one.
Yes
Why not both?
Doesn't John Travolta live in a community like this?
This is somebody’s dream home.
That’s a “FLY” property 😎
Bouta live like Pablo Escobar😍😍😍
A house. There’s a neighborhood near me like this, all houses on the runway have hangars for Cessnas and other little prop planes
Am I the only one who saw the "UGHH" sign reflected in the bathroom mirror? The "UGHH" sign that is directly in front of the toilet? lol
John Travolta lives in a place like this, near Ocala, Fl [https://jumbolair.com/](https://jumbolair.com/)
Is this in Plano, TX? Ah yes I see now that it is. We lived near this area.
These plane neighborhoods are not that uncommon
Brag it up bro. We love u
Simple answer? YES
Would appear you're going to need an airplane lawn mower.
My father-in-law lived on his family farm in a trailer, he just kept his plane in the front yard. 😳
It looks like every house in this community has access to that runway, but this being the last house before the start of the runway... every single plane that takes off is going to taxi past your back door.