One of the major points she makes is that “over the years, FAA has issued grants totaling $1.8 billion to buy land and homes, relocate residents, and mitigate the impacts of aircraft noise with soundproofing.” I don’t doubt for one minute that FAA has spent nearly $2 billion in such efforts over the last 20 years or so.Continue readingOur thoughts on FAA’s TTF position
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While not exactly an airpark (no thru-the-fence agreement here), it is an interesting example of extreme living around a busy airport. Enjoy.Continue readingExtreme airpark(?) living
What makes this story applicable to Living With Your Plane is the fact that Independence Airpark is co-located at Independence State Airport, and exists as a result of a thru-the-fence (TTF) agreement.Continue readingAn example of good press
Is the any help out there for someone who wants to build a small airpark? I’d like to create one in Texas with with about four lots and a 2600 foot strip.Continue readingWriter seeking help creating airpark
During the past 6-8 months we have averaged about one inquiry per month, and have been visited by several families who have toured our fly-in community neighborhood.Continue readingWhiteplains Plantation seeing hike in activity
A plan to develop a 19-lot development adjacent to the privately-owned Sky Manor Airport at Pittstown, New Jersey, has hit a bumpy road and the property has been turned over to the primary lender, Metuchen Savings Bank.Continue readingBank offers lots adjoining New Jersey airport
Far too often maintenance and normal upkeep is put on the back burner during the winter months. That’s especially true in areas where the property gets buried in snow or other inclement weather. With that time situation, flying is often down and the net result is that problems with the runway and taxiway are missed.Continue readingSpring’s coming … airparks need work!
I would like to say that with the correct use of terms and verbiage, the initial conversation with airport or airpark management and other governing body personnel must begin with the descriptive language that portrays what the requester really is asking for.Continue readingCorrect terms help get ‘hangar home’ OK
Most new homes at a certain price level now come with things like home theaters, home automation, security video integrated into home entertainment video, etc.Continue readingTechnology in airpark homes
The Buffalo County Planning and Zoning Commission tabled a request from Mark Meyer and Onion Crest LLC for a special-use permit that would allow 16 additional hangars with residences at an existing private airstrip near Cottonmill Avenue and 85th Street about two miles south of Riverdale.Continue readingResidential airpark plan tabled
I can assure you that the fly-in communities located on privately-owned airports do not have any trouble with the FAA.Continue readingQuestion: What’s future of airparks?
Long time Living With Your Plane friend James Wynbrandt has written a feature on airpark living for Plane & Pilot magazine. The article mostly discusses “finding a residential airpark that’s right for you”.Continue readingPlane Living
Illinois’ 18 airparks include four that opened in the 1960s and 1970s. The oldest of the group saw its first operations in 1966 with another one in 1969.Continue readingAirparks in Illinois
All of the residential airparks in the state are listed as privately-owned. Eight of the fly-in communities are listed as private use only but five of them are open to the public, according to the information provided by the airpark representatives.Continue readingAirparks in Idaho
The hassles of traveling once the plane landed, coupled with the frustration of arriving at airports to discover there was no hangar space available for his pride and joy, set Draves to thinking there had to be a better way.Continue readingGoing ’round in circles with Carousel Condos