Pietenpol-List: retirement site

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:34 pm

Original Posted By: "Douwe Blumberg"
Fellow Pieters-I've got to retire in three years and am in the throes of deciding just where agood place to live might be. It occurred to me that the place to find like-mindedpeople would be on this list so.........Does anybody know of an airport community with lots available? An airport withan existing house/hangar available? How about just a really nice airport thatwould be enough of a magnet that I wouldn't mind having a hangar there and livingnearby?We spent several days in the central and northern portions of FL but didn't findas much to get excited about as we thought we would. Maybe we didn't look inthe right places or ask the right people.Of course grass is preferable and a lot of grass is even better. A decent climateis a big plus (more flying days) near a city but not too near, and no highelevations that my poor old asthmatic Piet would find hard to tolerate.Candidates????Larry________________________________________________________________________________

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:38 pm

Original Posted By: "LAWRENCE WILLIAMS"
There are several excellent airport communities (with hangers/homesavailable) in the Dallas area.....Come on out some weekend (we have a spare bedroom) and we can do thetour.......Jim in Plano----- Original Message -----

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:40 pm

Original Posted By: "John Ford"

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:53 pm

Original Posted By: Jim Ash

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:54 am

Original Posted By: "LAWRENCE WILLIAMS"
Hi Larry , This area is terrific, ask your dad about it, he has been here--John----- Original Message -----

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:22 am

Original Posted By: Gary Gower
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: retirement siteLarry,I have 41CC hangared at Bluebird Hill 5F5, a turf strip just south of Shreveport. It is an uncrowded, residental airport with some room for expansionowned by two retired colonels from Barksdale AFB. Prices, I think, are well below some I've heard. May I suggest you call Mr. Hugh Hunton 318 925 2302 for particuliarsCorky in beautiful, low taxed, all year flying, land of good food, 5 river boat casinos and 1 race track, Loooooooooooooooozianna. And 1 Piet________________________________________________________________________________Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:00:38 -0700 (PDT)

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:10 pm

Original Posted By: "Robert Haines"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: retirement siteGot news for you. You're dreaming.You are never free with a wife and kids. Corky in La with a wife and 8 kids________________________________________________________________________________

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:13 pm

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I have to chime in on this one, we searched for the "just right" airpark forabout 4 years. It had to be grass and on the tail dragger/Bonanza scale ithad to be way closer to the tail dragger end.We found out about Hales Landing in northwest West Virginia almost byaccident, a friend, flying to the T-Craft flyin in Alliance OH, heard naturecall as he was flying over this strip. He came back and told us about it. Wehave made two trips there and sent in our deposit for lot #28 today. Thereis one lot left.Skip in Atlanta, until June 1 2004. _________________________________________________________________________________

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 5:05 pm

Original Posted By: "Gadd, Skip"
Try this in Gahttp://www.aviationhomes.com/lyonslanding.html----- Original Message -----

matronics · Post by **matronics** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:31 am

Original Posted By: "catdesign(at)intergate.com"

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