Sunday, August 17, 2008

Air Park Home (OR81)

An "Airpark" is typically a housing development with an associated General Aviation runway for the use of homeowners. In some cases the developments can be large with 30-100 homes. In my case Olinger Airpark, also known to the FAA as OR81 (Oscar-Romeo-Eight-One), is 15 homes arranged along a 2000' grass runway just north of Hillsboro Oregon. We are close enough to the Hillsboro airport (HIO-Hotel India Oscar), that we must contact the Hillsboro tower for permission to take off and land from our backyard runway.

This is a photo of me in the "shop" before we purchased the home. Here you can see how the shop was "staged" for a quick sale. There was an airplane hangar attached too... but it was full of "stuff" so the owners airplane had to park outside.

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