this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This exists?! Oh my That's not just mildly, it's really interesting!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are somewhat common-ish if you know where to look. I fly by one a lot!

https://mapio.net/images-p/101437851.jpg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Indeed, one of our regional airports has housing with taxi ways to the runway as well. Instead of garages for cars they have hangers for the planes and cars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But I don't see any planes or hangars there or in OPs image?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Residential hangers just look like big garages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Look for shed like things that connect to taxiways. They aren’t huge and don’t need to be if the aircraft is smol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bottom right of ops image (I also see one other plane a few drives up)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These exist all across the country! Here's a fun fact, the street signs are all 2 feet tall in these neighborhoods so that even low-wing airplanes can make turns around corners that have signs without risk of completely destroying their plane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an exclusive neighborhood where only environmentalist TikTok influencers live /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There are thousands of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, John Travolta had and maybe still has a house like this to park his Boeing 707.