“Cameron Airpark“, A Town Where Every Resident Owns An Airplane

 

Cameron Airpark is a town in California where everyone has airplanes.

The residential airpark or fly-in communities like Cameron Airpark are privately owned, not allowed for outsiders to use the property without permission, and allowed only if owners invite them.

There are airplanes in every house in this village; whether to go to an office or a restaurant, people fly on the plane!

According to an estimate, there are 610 such air parks in America, where there is a plane in every house. The airfields that were built during World War II were not converted and became residential air parks.

Retired military pilots live here. During 1946, there were a total of 400,000 pilots in the US who started living in these air parks. Cameron Park was built in 1963 and has a total of 124 houses.

Here, the streets are also named after aircraft, and the street signs have also been made aircraft-friendly.

The area to the west of the runway is a residential airpark and residents can taxi aircraft through either of two electrically operated gates to the airpark.

The airport is public and includes rented tie-down spaces, hangar spaces, and a limited number of transient spaces. The airport has never received federal obligation grant funds and is, therefore, not obligated to operate.

Cameron Park Airport covers an area of 61 acres (25 ha) at an elevation of 1,286 feet (392 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 4,051 by 50 feet (1,235 x 15 m).

Few years ago, the airport had 36,036 aircraft operations, an average of 98 per day: 98% general aviation and 2% air taxi. At that time there were 100 aircraft based at this airport: 88% single-engine and 12% multi-engine.

 

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