Airports and places to live in Raleigh

dave wrote in message news:sNT_b.118474$uV3.615639@attbi_s51...
There is a slight possibility that i may take a job in Raleigh NC,
actually RTP area.

What is the airport and hangar situation there?

Any preferred places to live which aren't too expensive?

Airpark living?

Thanks

Dave

For Airpark living the only one available that I'm aware of
is Lake Ridge, which a link has already been posted too. That's
where I fly out of. Grass strip, great family atmosphere with
lots of tail draggers and fly ins on weekends, but no instrument
approaches.

RDU is the big boy in the center, but is pretty GA friendly and
if you work in RTP will be close to work.

Other than that, there are several reliever airports that are
pretty similar (1 5000x100 foot runway with ILS) - JNX, LHZ,
TTA, and (slightly further away) TDF. To meet your 'not too
expensive' criteria will move you out of town and closer to
one of the above - home price is inversely proportional to
the distance to RTP.

Popular 'cheaper' Raleigh/RTP 'suburbs' and matching reliever airports:
Clayton - JNX
Wake Forest - LHZ
Creedmoor/Butner/Durham - 8NC8 (Lake Ridge)
Pittsboro/Holly Springs - TTA

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Allen Johnson

ajohnson wrote:

dave wrote in message news:sNT_b.118474$uV3.615639@attbi_s51...

There is a slight possibility that i may take a job in Raleigh NC,
actually RTP area.

What is the airport and hangar situation there?

Any preferred places to live which aren't too expensive?

Airpark living?

Thanks

Dave


For Airpark living the only one available that I'm aware of
is Lake Ridge, which a link has already been posted too. That's
where I fly out of. Grass strip, great family atmosphere with
lots of tail draggers and fly ins on weekends, but no instrument
approaches.


How aviation-friendly can it be when its web page says:

1). Pattern Altitude is 1000 AGL (1309 foot MSL) and Left Hand Traffic
patternt. Please do not fly the down wind leg over the development.
......
10).Flight over the Lake Ridge housing development is PROHIBITED

Two that others have not mentioned, which are real airpark developments
where the airport is an integral part of the development:

1. Cox airfield (NC81) in Apex is a grass strip with houses on it. It
was recently featured on the front page of the Raleigh News and
Observer's real estate section. There's an EAA chapter based there too.
It's probably most convenient to the triangle 'burbs but is under the
RDU class C shelf.

2. There's also a private residential strip called Eagle's Rest (9NC8)
that is just southwest of Pittsboro.

As you can see from my moniker I fly out of TTA, which is a nearly-new
airport (commissioned in 2000) with an excellent FBO and a very large
and active flying club on the field. 6500x100, ILS, etc.

North Carolina in general has a great network of GA airports and is a
good place to fly with relatively benign winds and terrain -- just watch
for all the MOAs and miltary restricted areas.