Wednesday, April 13, 2005
JETTING HOME
Got a customer with an airplane? While aviation enthusiasts are landing in Lakeland, Fla., this week for the annual Sun 'n Fun Fly-In convention, which runs through April 18, the luxury-home buyer and aircraft owner doesn't have to travel much farther to find a place to call home. Roughly 66 nautical miles from Lakeland in Ocala is the largest, paved, private airfield in the U.S., Jumbolair Aviation Estates.
The exclusive, 550-acre fly-in community is one of roughly 400 airparks across the nation. Amid Central Florida's horse country, Jumbolair markets itself to home buyers as "a lifestyle and a dream that few people will ever experience." John Travolta lives that dream; he reportedly paid roughly $2.5 million for his 6,400-square-foot home a few years ago, and his Gulfstream II jet and Boeing 707 are parked in his front yard. But the key selling point for Jumbolair isn't Travolta -- it's the 7,550-foot-long runway. Developers, former model Terri Jones-Thayer and husband Jeremy Thayer, take a certain pride in knowing that any jet can land just a few hundred yards from their mailbox.
Source: Planet Realtor, FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
The exclusive, 550-acre fly-in community is one of roughly 400 airparks across the nation. Amid Central Florida's horse country, Jumbolair markets itself to home buyers as "a lifestyle and a dream that few people will ever experience." John Travolta lives that dream; he reportedly paid roughly $2.5 million for his 6,400-square-foot home a few years ago, and his Gulfstream II jet and Boeing 707 are parked in his front yard. But the key selling point for Jumbolair isn't Travolta -- it's the 7,550-foot-long runway. Developers, former model Terri Jones-Thayer and husband Jeremy Thayer, take a certain pride in knowing that any jet can land just a few hundred yards from their mailbox.
Source: Planet Realtor, FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
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