For most pilots, flying is something you schedule your life around. A weekend hobby squeezed between work obligations and family commitments. But tucked into 4,200 acres of gated, pecan tree-lined property southwest of Fort Worth, Texas, a residential airpark community is making the case that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Cayla McLeod, host of the Plane + Pilot Podcast, recently flew a Cirrus SR20 from Burnet Municipal Airport up to The Landings Airpark at Pecan Plantation to see the development firsthand. She sat down with Mike Murphy, sales manager for Patten Properties (the third-generation land developer behind the project) to talk about what makes the community tick, who’s buying in, and why the window to do so is closing fast.
The story of Pecan Plantation starts long before anyone was taxiing to a runway…