The Residents Of This Town Board Airplanes To Work!

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The Residents Of This Town Don’t Drive; They Board Airplanes To Work Instead!

While hopping onto a bike or a car may be how we usually commute to work, residents of Cameron Airpark in California don’t believe in road transport; they fly their personal airplanes instead! We tell you more. By Aneesh Kumar

We all generally hop into cars, bikes and maybe buses too commute. However, for the residents of Cameron Airpark, road transport is too passé! The residents of this California town use their lavish personal airplanes to travel for work and business, reports India Times.

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This way of life dates back to the time after World War II when many airfields were left unchanged and the aviation authority stepped in to develop them into residential air-parks for retired military pilots, reports EnterTales. After a steady increase in the numbers of pilots and the development of the town, this 1963 constructed residential area currently consists of 124 houses with everyone owning airplanes and hangars. Roads are paved as wide as 100 feet wide, to allow the airplanes to be land right in front of the residents’ homes and allow access to airports.

The wide roads also allow airplanes and cars to drive alongside, reports The Drive. The construction of the area is remarkable! For instance, street signs and letterboxes are placed lower than usual so as to not get damaged by the planes‘ wings.

In the village, the homes have attached or separate garages to store the residents’ airplanes as well as cars, and often, these structures can be mistaken for hangars due to their size. The names of the streets in this town are also unique; Cessna Drive, Aeronca Way, Boeing Road, and even Lockheed Court are some of them, reports ScoopWhoop.

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While areas like this are not too common, there are more than 630 residential air-parks, out of which more than 610 of them are located in the USA. Following Cameron Park is another wild aviator land housing planes as vintage as the 1940s. Spruce Creek in Florida boasts around 650 aircrafts which include everything from private jets to historic aircrafts.