My wife and I have lived on an airport for the past 30 years with our airplanes. The house didn’t cost any more than most houses in the surrounding area not on the airport. Our Piper Cherokee cost $17,600 when we bought it. But it costs a little more than most cars to maintain, although like Real Estate the value has gone up over the years.
We have purchased all of our cars off of the State’s auction site during that time. Our last vehicle from the State Auction site was a 2012 Ford F350 with 218,000 miles that was filthy but the running gear and engine and even in the paint is in good condition. It went for $3000 plus the auction fee. I mention this because we have spent much less on the airplane and our vehicles over the last 30 years than all of our friends.
Our airplane can burn Autogas without alcohol which is available around here and it gets the equivalent of 20 mpg at best economy speed which is about 100 mph and we get to go in a straight line.
I lied in Darien, IL where there were a row of houses around 3000 SF, there was a runway in back of the houses and a small plane parked in backyards of every house. Houses were worth less than 1% of $250 million.
Your Livin’ Large FRiend !
Gillespie Field in SoCal was My
Hangout. Always small planes,BBQ and
rivets to pound !