There are nearly 150 links to residential airparks (sometimes known as fly-in communities) posted on the Living With Your Plane website.

More than 100 of them have been online for some time, but we’ve just added 41 more .

These links often provide all kinds of information about the facility itself, prices, the locations and very commonly have a number of photographs of the airport aspect of the property as well as the homes and other amenities.

Whether you are looking for a fly-in community home or interested in seeing what others are doing, these links provide a wealth of information and material.

To get to them, simply click on the Links button and then click on the individual residential airpark links. We’ve included their city and state to help you find areas you are most interested in but looking at those in other regions can give you good ideas, too.

If you find a broken link (or a link to a real estate agent instead of an individual fly-in community), please send us the information so we can get it corrected. You can e-mail us directly at  dave@generalaviationnews.com

    We’ve had several inquiries over the years from people looking for vacation rental properties located on a residential airpark. Since there are a number of fly-in communities located adjacent to lakes, golf courses, mountains, etc., we think there probably are some B&B facilities or lodges associated with the airpark properties.
    If you have such a place or are aware of any, please lete us know with a comment so the information can be shared with others.
    Of course, if you have such a place a classified ad in GANews would probably get you some extra business, too.

In response to your inquiries on property values for appraisals, you are right that it is hard to come up with a good one. The big problem I have found is the appraisers look for comparables and end up using lots and homes in the area that have nothing to do with the airparks. Kind of trying to compare a waterfront home to one in the desert.

The other thing I have found is that price varies a lot from airpark to airpark. Example: I could have bought a 3-acre lot last winter at the Kelly Airpark south of Denver for $75,000. I just sold a 3-acre lot at Erie Airpark just north of Denver for $285,000. Both lots were the same as far as utilities in place. The big difference in price I think is the size of the runway and services offered at the Erie Airport that is city-owned and maintained. Also, the ease and short distance to the Denver – Boulder area is a factor. The Kelly Airpark is a nice airpark with nice homes being built but was too far south of Denver for us.

We sold the lot in favor of buying a house that was already built at the Erie Airpark. The home was built in 1980. It is a 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath, 2-story home with 2,666 share feet and another 1,000 sq ft of unfinished basement. It includes a large 4-car garage and no hangar. It is on two acres with good runway access. We paid $450,000.

The new homes that are going up at this airpark are now all close to and exceeding the $1 million range. With all lots sold and only a few left vacant for building I head that one of the homes sold in the same price range we paid was going to be scrapped for a bigger and better one.

Hope this information is of help.

Sincerely,
Don Welliever
Denver, CO

In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster the question of adequate planning for your family and also your airpark should be a topic for discussion at the dinner table or your association’s next meeting (maybe even a special session).

With more than a million people dislocated, thousands and thousands of homes destroyed, perhaps thousands of lives lost, it is time to make sure your own disaster plan is in order.
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Homeowner associations and the covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) that are prevalent at most residential airparks rule what and how you will live at the airpark you decide to buy into.
In 99 out of 100 cases, most issues that arise are settled amicably and for the benefit of all concerned. Unfortunately, from time to time issues arise that result in animosities making life at the airpark considerably less than enjoyable.
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The following 29 airparks are located on public-owned airports. If your airpark is on a public use airport and you have access to the runway with a thru-the-fence agreement or other arrangement, please let us know.

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Many residential airpark developments are projects that grew as a result of the property owner having friends and acquaintances asking to buy some of his property that adjoins the ranch or farm airstrip.

As a result of such requests, the property owner got a surveyor to figure out the size and location of the lots, filed the sub-division with the appropriate governmental agency and sold a few lots.

Several years later, there might be one or two homes on the property but the remainder of the lots remain unsold or, at a minimum, not built upon.
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