Editor’s note: here’s another in our planned series of stories describing state by state the airparks listed in the Living With Your Plane Directory. We started with Alaska and will tackle one state per issue unless there are a particularly low number of airparks in that particular state. In that case, we’ll try to do several states in the same story.

As always, we welcome your comments and ideas and of course, if your residential airpark isn’t listed or if you have information about other fly-in communities in the state for which we’re reporting, or any other state, we urge you to use our Airpark Submission form.

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Editor’s note: Another in our planned series of stories describing state by state the airparks listed in the Living With Your Plane Directory. We started with Alaska and will tackle one state per issue unless there are a particularly low number of airparks in that particular state. In that case, we’ll try to do several states in the same story.

As always, we welcome your comments and ideas and of course, if your residential airpark isn’t listed or if you have information about other fly-in communities in the state for which we’re reporting, click here to and fill in as much information as you have.

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Editor’s note: Here’s another in our planned series of stories describing state by state the airparks listed in the Living With Your Plane Directory. We started with Alaska and will tackle one state per issue unless there is a particularly low number of airparks in that particular state. In that case, we’ll try to do several states in the same story.

As always, we welcome your comments and ideas and of course, if your residential airpark isn’t listed or if you have information about other fly-in communities in the state for which we’re reporting, or any other state, we urge you to go the website (http://www.livingwithyourplane.com/apadd.lasso) and add any information you have by clicking on Register your Airpark.

Arizona: We list 25 open airparks in Arizona and one under construction.  The oldest listed airpark in Arizona was opened in 1958 – Moreton Airpark located at Wickenburg, AZ. However, six more claim to have started operations in the 1970s. Since the turn of the century, six more fly-in communities  have opened for business.

Looking at the 25 established communities plus the one under construction that we list in the Living With Your Plane directory, 18 report their individual properties are more than an acre each while only right of the airparks show residential properties of an acre or less.

Also, Arizona has the distinction of listing more large lot projects than most of the other states in the country.  Sixteen of the fly-in communities claim to have 50 or more lots and most of those are in the 100 to 175 lot range. One airpark lists 550 residential sites and another one has 300.

Only two airparks report having 10 or fewer residential sites; a couple more indicate they have between 21 and 35 lots and three list their homesites as bewteen 36 and 50.

As you might expect, the vast majority of Arizona airparks boast runways of between 2,500 and 4,000 feet.  Actually 17 of the fly-in communities report this length while another eight have more than 4,000 feet of runway.

Only six of the airparks show their runway as unpaved. All the rest are paved.

Here’s the fly-in community list:

• Castle Wells – Morristown
• Eagle Roost Airpark - Aguila
• Flying J Ranch – Pima
• Hangar Haciendas – Laveen
• Indian Hills Airpark – Salome
• LaCholla Airpark – Oro Valley
• Mogollon Airpark – Overgaard
• Montezuma Heights Airpark – Camp Verde
• Skyranch at Carefree – Carefree
• Stellar Air Park – Chandler
• Sun Valley Airport – Bullhead City
• Twin Hooks – Marana
• White Mt. Lake Airport - White Mt. Lake
• Pegasus Airpark – Empire
• Mazatzal Mountain Air Park – Payson
• Flying Diamond Airpark – Sahuarita
• Sun Valley Airpark – Fort Mohave
• Phoenix Regional Airport – Maricopa
• Moreton Airpark – Wickenburg
• High Mesa Air Park – Safford
• Wagon Bow Airpark – Kingman
• Whetstone Airpark – Whetstone
• Morning Star Airpark – Pearce
• White Mountain Lakes Airpark – Show Low
• Ruby Star Airpark – Sahuarita
• Sampley’s Airport - Aguila

By JANICE WOOD
General Aviation News

It happened at every meeting of the homeowners association Bill Tuccio attended.

A resident of Yellow River Airport, an airpark in Holt, Fla., Tuccio said that one question came up every time: What do other airports do to take care of their turf runways?

“A lot of time was wasted on these constant discussions,” said Tuccio, who participates in the maintenance of the airpark’s 2,500-foot runway. That’s why he decided to conduct a Turf Airport Study as his graduate project for Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, as part of his work toward his Master’s degree in Aeronautical Science.

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AOPA has prepared an extensive white paper on thru the fence operations, particularly as it relates to residential airparks, as well as other projects.

Read the entire article by clicking here (PDF download).

Recently a subscriber asked about the limitations on hangars in his community, particularly those larger than 2,000 square feet.

Recently we got responses from different parts of the country – California and Washington State.

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Making roads and taxiways accessible for both planes and road vehicles is a question that frequently comes up. Is it safe? is obviously the most common question. Will it work on airparks of all sizes? What kind of planes operate out of airparks with joint use of roads and taxiways?

Recently we asked these questions and others of residential airpark residents. A total of 54 persons responded to the survey and they represented airparks in 22 states.

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The Fly-By-Night switch that permits radio control of our runway lights has gone on the fritz. Unfortunately, it’s an older unit, a BB-7, built by Subil Enterprises, which is now out of business. The new company has no association with the original.

Does anyone have a schematic or other manual for this system that they will loan us? Does anyone have any experience with this system and can help us get back into operation?

Please contact:
Gus Hertz
gushertz@peoplepc.com
Mallards Landing
770-898-5357
(cell) 404-936-0250