“In my opinion, Whiteplains is a cut above most airparks,” Plesser said, noting most of the homes are brick, between 2,000 to 3,000 square feet, with two-car garages and hangars. Those people who are pilots may have a hangar elsewhere.” “Just a small strip of houses where the road is not a taxiway have no hangars on their lots. Most of the houses have direct access to the lighted 3,000-foot asphalt runway (9-27) or have access via taxiway from their homes, according to Steve Sanderson, an airpark resident and former corporate pilot. Many others come to Whiteplains on a daily basis because of the hangars without homes. “But it turned out to be such a nice community that over half of the people who now live in the airpark came from out of state,” he said.Ībout 100 people live on the airpark, with about a third of them retired. 9, 1999.”Īccording to Plesser, the developer, Niel Bonacum, first envisioned the airpark as a place for local pilots to live together and have their planes nearby. “The runway went down in 1998,” said Ken Plesser, a resident and former president of the Homeowners Association. Close to 45 aircraft, including six under construction, are based at Whiteplains (SC99) in rural Lexington County, about 25 minutes from the state’s capital, Columbia, and about a mile west of Columbia Metropolitan Airport’s (CAE) Class C outer ring with its 1,800-foot shelf. Of the 45 lots that just have hangars on them, 30 are built. There are about 70 homesites on the property, with another 24 to be built. But it’s not just the homes, the hangars or the runway that make the airpark such a success. In a little over a decade, Whiteplains Plantation has developed into a thriving airpark that markets itself as South Carolina’s premier residential aviation community. By BILL WALKER, For General Aviation News
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