How Far Do You Drive to Get to Airport?

[Jasperfield]

For those of you who don't keep your airplane at home; How far do you have to drive to get to the airport, and/or how long does your trip take?

I'm thinking of moving closer to my airport as I'm driving 55 miles and it takes 80 minutes.

[Fencer]

I just walk outside..... But I have to drive 15 miles to work... Always a trade off

[Bill Rusk]

Being close to the hangar is the BEST.

The EAA did an informal study and found that the further you are from your Homebuilt airplane the lower the completion rate. The guys doing it in their garage had the highest completion rate, and those more than 1/2 hour away had a very low success rate.

Food for thought

Bill

[Barnstormer]

10 minutes to the hangar for me, and 10 minutes to the golf course for the wife.

[Tom Jones]

25 miles, 35 minutes...

[180Marty]

About a mile. There is a bike trail that goes by the golf course and through the little state park that is next to the airport. Pretty handy. Sometimes I ride my bike out there two or three times a day.

[bigrock]

A mile and a half by air and 8 minutes and 5 miles by road.

[Gordon Misch]

Two min from the new place we're building. Just over an hour from my existing house. I can land at the house but the horses disapprove, break thru the fence and run off. So I don't do that anymore unless they're penned up!

[bob turner]

11 minutes. Fly every day. Soon I have to fix the Port-A-Port leaks. The Nunno never leaks.

I spend more in gas back and forth than I do in the Cub.

[n40ff]

22 miles, 30 min. Still managed to complete one build and nearing completion of 2nd. No heat in hangar so most work is done when I can ride motorcycle.

Hangar is only $50/month which helps w/gas surcharge of driving........

[wronghand]

10 km (6 miles) or about 8 minutes. Im one of the lucky ones: short trip to the airport AND a garage next to the house where Im building my cub.

[Chuck Avon]

Have one plane in the garage at home and one 26 miles away at airport.

[OLDCROWE]

3 1/2 miles. But it's a dangerous trek, gotta go right by SteveE's aerodrome!

[brown bear]

240 feet
Doug

[Richgj3]

Five miles, local roads. Ten minutes maybe.

[flybynite]

31 miles, 35 minutes (on a good day) Closer would be better.

Wayne

[Brian Fox]

60 miles/about an hour

[Anne]

Six miles on two-lane roads, about 15 minutes. Even that close, I'd rather be on an airpark, with a hangar attached to my house.

Anne.

[tcraft128]

3 miles to the airport, 45 to work.

[fly_cubs]

35 minutes to my hangar at KBUY. When I restored my J-3 in late 2007 through 2009, I was working 30 miles in the opposite direction. I put 100,000 miles on my 4Runner in 2 years. Worked on the Cub almost daily, and spent a fortune on gas. Now with a shop at my house, I don't think I would ever restore one again having to drive that much. The EAA is right about completion and distance from the project.

Chapel Hill has an airport in town- 10 minutes away from my house, but without private hangars. I based there in a community hangar before I restored my airplane, and flew 200+ hours a year.

[SteveE]

2 miles by road, 1/4 mile by 4 wheeler... I do try to take Kirby out when I go by road.....

[NimpoCub]

100' from house to dock!

[soyAnarchisto]

2.4 miles, 8 minutes

I moved to another airport near my work which was 15 minutes away for about 6 months - it sucked - so I'm now back home where I belong - I rent a hangar from the city but if I hit the lotto I'm thinking of building my own hangar - unless I can find a nice piece of land under 30 minutes away which is not likely

[moneyburner]

Closest hangar I could find was 32 miles away. 45 minutes.

[N636P]

I can see the airport 2.5 miles away, but you can't get there from here.....takes 18+ minutes to drive.

[WindOnHisNose]

35 minutes from home to airport; 20 minutes from office to airport.

[mkading11]

11 miles, 25ish minutes. But i work there too so its not so bad

[C-FIJK]

Closest hanger i found 70 miles , 1 hr and 15 min away !!!!

[arnold bronson]

7 miles, about 15 min and a great cafe.

[Tim]

3 1/2 miles. But it's a dangerous trek, gotta go right by SteveE's aerodrome!

If you ever get your Cub back, Why don't you keep it at E's

My hangar is 500' from my house

[DarrenLucke]

y'all have hangars?? planes are about 10 minutes across town.....

[Snert]

Ten miles and I have to drive past my Mom's house on the way.
Coffee and chocolate chip cookies on the way home from the airport.

[OLDCROWE]

7 miles, about 15 min and a great cafe.

When you work with regulators one must work to avoid placing oneself in "situations"... and besides the last time I flew in there, it left on a trailer.

[Bugs66]

20 minutes from home, about 15 minutes from work. Halfway between work and home, so is a frequent stop on the way home!

[courierguy]

30 paces, and wow this thread makes me appreciate it even more!

[gdafoe]

Just get out of bed and I'm there.

[Marty57]

No hanger yet but I'm building my 2+2 ten feet from the kitchen . Hanger will be 12 miles when finished. FAA says I can't build in a hanger; not "aviation related"
Marty57

[flylowslow]

45 minutes to a hangar that has a crappy asphalt floor, almost no lighting, un-secured, no grass runway, porta-potty, no water, one electrical outlet, leaks, in flood plain(and it does flood), overpriced, but darn, sure happy to have it under cover!........and why else?........the joy of flying a cub 300 feet over the masses!

[Steve-N1964S]

About 7 miles for me from home to where both the SC lives and I work. Until the recent airport improvements, I could walk out of the helicopter base to the tee-hanger in about 45 seconds. Now those hangers are gone, replaced by more ramp space and the SC is across the field in another tee-hanger. Such is progress!

Steve

[Ralf]

.7 miles, just bragging. I live in the woods but when I hear a plane land I head over to see who it is. Still lots fo work to do on my WW2 Quonset Hut. WV59 drop in, any time. 3 J-3's a J-5, a Stearman and a 1940 Taylorcraft.