Ed 
Right now you can buy an airpark or fly-in property within about 90 minutes of Austin for anywhere from $94,500 to $3.2 million. The low end is a one-acre hangar-home lot on a paved, lighted runway down in Fentress. The high end is a 21-acre build site at the newest fly-in community in the Hill Country. And in between there is a hangar home in Cedar Park, a hangar condo up in Salado, and a 29-acre spread inside a gated fly-in ranch near Blanco.
That is the thing nobody tells you about Central Texas. We have more residential airparks packed around one metro than most pilots get in their whole state. So this is the running list, the full one, with what is actually for sale as I write this. I keep an eye on this corner of the market because almost nobody else does (the buyer pool for a taxiway attached to your garage is.. small, and that is exactly what makes it interesting).
If you want the storytelling version, the why-these-places-are-special version, I already wrote the pilot’s guide to Central Texas fly-in communities. This post is the other half of it. The map, plus the inventory that exists today. Lets get into it.
First, What Counts as an Airpark
A residential airpark, or fly-in community, is a neighborhood built around a runway where the homes have direct taxiway access. You taxi your airplane from the runway straight to a hangar that is usually attached to or part of your house. Think lake house with a boat dock, except the dock is a taxiway and the lake is the sky. It is a simple idea once you see it right.
There is a second category that matters here too, and I am going to be honest about the difference because it changes what you are buying. Some of these are true taxiway-to-hangar airparks. Others are towns or communities that happen to sit next to a great public airport, where you get easy aviation access but you are not literally taxiing across your own lot. Both are worth knowing. I will flag which is which as we go.
The Full Central Texas Airpark List
Here is every one I track, starting closest to Austin and working out. Each has an FAA identifier, which is how you know it is a real, charted field and not just a guy with a mowed strip and a dream.
Lakeway Airpark (3R9)
Seventeen miles from downtown, right in Lakeway, with a 3,930 foot asphalt runway and about 32 homes around it. This is the resort-lifestyle airpark. Golf, Lake Travis, private clubs, and a hangar in your backyard. It is also the one I know best, and I wrote a full guide to Lakeway Airpark if you want the deep dive. For sale today: nothing on the MLS. That is normal here. When one of these 32 homes trades it usually happens quietly, so if Lakeway is the goal, you want someone watching for it before it lists.
Breakaway Park and Hank Sasser Airport (40XS)
The only true fly-in neighborhood inside the Austin suburbs. It sits in Cedar Park, has been here since 1977, and the homes line both sides of a 3,000 foot paved runway on one-to-three-acre lots. Leander ISD, ten minutes from H-E-B and Costco, and then a runway out back. I covered the whole community in my Breakaway Park guide. And this is where the current inventory gets good, so hold that thought.
Cross Country Estates and Marshall Field (07TS)
About six miles east of Georgetown, this is the grass-strip community. A 2,500 foot turf runway, 29 developed lots, and a rule that you do not fly for 24 hours after rain because the bermuda needs to dry. If you fly a Cub or a Citabria or a taildragger, this is paradise. Here is the tell on how much people love it: all 29 lots are built out, and when one sells it moves by word of mouth through the flying community before it ever hits the MLS. So, for sale today, publicly, nothing. Read into that what you want (nobody is trying to leave). My Cross Country Estates profile has the full story.
Rusty Allen Airport and Lago Vista (KRYW)
Lago Vista is a town on the north shore of Lake Travis with its own real airport, KRYW, a 3,808 foot asphalt runway with 60-plus based aircraft. This is the aviation-adjacent category, not taxiway-to-hangar, but it is the budget play on Lake Travis. Homes run from the high $200s up over $1M, which is a fraction of what the same lake costs you in Lakeway or Bee Cave. You get the lake, a legit airport, and money left for avgas.
Spicewood Airport (88R) and Windermere Oaks
Spicewood Airport is a privately owned, public-use field with a 4,185 foot asphalt runway, and it is managed by pilots, which tells you the culture. Right next door is Windermere Oaks, a gated lake community in Spicewood. This is aviation-adjacent again. You will not usually find a taxiway home for sale here, and there is not one on the market right now, but there are lake lots and homes near the field, and hangar space does come up for lease.
Georgetown Airpark (TA68)
The newest of the established players, a gated community about 30 minutes north with a brand new 3,300 foot paved runway and cleared, over-an-acre lots. Everything underneath is modern: underground utilities, public water, fiber. It sells lots directly through the developer starting around $275,000, so you build your hangar home from scratch on a clean site. That also means resale inventory on the MLS is basically nonexistent, because the community is still filling in. Here is my Georgetown Airpark TA68 guide with the details. If a raw hangar-home lot is what you want, this and Mount Sharp below are your two best shots.
Horseshoe Bay Jet Center (KDZB)
The luxury, larger-aircraft option. A 6,000 by 100 foot lighted runway with a full-service FBO and Jet-A, about 50 miles out on Lake LBJ. This is the only field in the region that comfortably handles light jets, and hangar-access homes here are rare and priced like it. None on the market right now, but when one comes up it is a genuine event.
Mount Sharp Airpark (TT35)
Here is the one that is not in most people’s roundups yet, because the FAA only activated the field in September 2025. Mount Sharp Airpark sits about four miles north of Wimberley, built around a 4,650 foot lighted concrete runway, and it is one of the newest residential airparks in the entire state. I wrote about it when it broke ground in my Mt Sharp Airpark guide. This is a build-your-own community, and unlike most of this list, it has real for-sale inventory right now.
Threshold Ranch and Boerne Stage Airfield (5C1)
This one is a stretch geographically, about 90 minutes toward San Antonio, but I include it because the runway earns it. Boerne Stage has a 5,005 foot paved runway with GPS instrument approaches on both ends and Jet-A on the field. If you fly a turboprop for business and you need reliable all-weather access, Threshold Ranch is the only residential airpark in the greater region that checks that box. It is the IFR pilot’s answer.
The Further-Out Two: Fentress (XS90) and Salado (2TX)
Two more that round out the real list. Fentress Airpark, FAA ID XS90, is a small hangar-home community southeast toward Lockhart on a 3,200 foot paved, lighted runway, and it is where the cheapest airpark dirt in the region lives. Salado Airport, FAA ID 2TX (marketed as AeroVista), is a gated aviation community about 50 minutes north with a 3,494 foot asphalt runway where you buy a lot and build a hangar home, or buy one of the finished hangar condos. Both have inventory right now, which is exactly why they are on this list and not just a footnote.
What Is Actually for Sale Right Now
Ok this is the part I actually care about, because a list of communities is easy. Live inventory is the hard part, and it is what you came for. Everything below was active when I pulled it, so treat it as a snapshot. Airpark listings move slow, but they do move.
Breakaway Park, Cedar Park
Two properties, and this is the strongest current inventory in the true-airpark category. There is an updated three-bed home on 1.14 acres at 2906 Post River Road for $750,000, which for a hangar-access lot this close to Austin is honestly a lot of house for the money right. And there is a 5,008 square foot custom home with a 1,858 square foot attached hangar at 700 Breakaway Road for $1,450,000, which is under contract as I write this but worth watching in case it comes back around. If you want the shortest commute between an Austin job and your airplane, Breakaway is it.
Mount Sharp Airpark, Wimberley
This is where the build-your-own crowd should be looking. There are eight taxiway lots on the market at Mount Sharp, ranging from a 1.57-acre site at $950,000 up to a 21.7-acre parcel at $3,200,000, with several in between like a 2.57-acre lot at $1,100,000. These are lots, not homes, so you are buying the dirt and the runway access and then designing the hangar home you actually want. On a field the FAA only switched on last year, you would be an early resident, which is its own kind of appeal.
The Landing at Blanco
A fly-in gated ranch community near Blanco (FAA ID 3TA5, a 3,450 foot asphalt runway) has a big one available: a 29-plus acre build site at 920 Crosswind Drive for $925,000. This is the spread-out, acreage version of airpark living. If your dream is a hangar, a home, and enough land that you cannot see a neighbor, this is the flavor.
Salado Airport / AeroVista
Up in Salado you get the most unusual inventory of the bunch, hangar condos with living space built in. There is a hangar with a fully finished second-floor living area at $699,000, a newer hangar at $459,990, and a larger one at $899,000. There is also an AeroVista build lot at $199,000 if you would rather start from scratch. This is a smart entry point for a pilot who wants a place to keep the plane and crash for the weekend without buying a whole estate.
Fentress Airpark
And the value play. There are two one-acre hangar-home lots on the runway at Fentress, both priced at $94,500 (here is the second one). Underground utilities, a paid water meter, and you build a hangar, a hangar with an apartment, or a full hangar home. It is further out and it is basic, but there is nowhere else in the region you get onto a paved lighted runway for under six figures. For a younger pilot trying to get in the game, this is where I would start. You can also browse land for sale across the region if you want to compare raw lots.
The Catch Nobody Mentions: Financing
So you found the one. Here is the part that trips people up. Banks do not know what to do with airpark homes. A lender assigns basically zero value to your runway access, treats the hangar as an “outbuilding” worth almost nothing on the appraisal, and sometimes wants a bigger down payment because the resale pool is so specialized. An identical house on the same land in a normal subdivision can appraise for a lot less simply because it does not have a taxiway, which sounds backward until you are sitting across from an underwriter.
It is not a dealbreaker, it is just a thing you plan for. I wrote a whole breakdown of how to get a mortgage on an airpark home because it comes up on almost every one of these deals. Read it before you make an offer, not after.
Benjamin Graham built his whole philosophy around a “margin of safety,” and airpark homes have one, except it is not in the price. It is in the supply. You cannot build new runways inside a growing metro anymore. Zoning, FAA registration, land use rules near runways, all of it combines to freeze supply permanently. The communities that exist are the communities you get. That scarcity is structural, not cyclical, and it is the real reason these places hold value. If you want the national context, my rundown of the best residential airpark communities in America shows how Central Texas stacks up against Florida and Arizona.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Bottom Line
Most cities in this country do not have a single fly-in community. We have more than a dozen within 90 minutes, and right now the market has real options at both ends, a $94,500 lot in Fentress and a $3.2 million spread at Mount Sharp, with hangar homes and hangar condos scattered in between. The supply is permanently tight, so when the right one shows up, it does not sit around.
I have been working the Hill Country market for 19 years, and I still get a little too excited when an airpark listing hits my desk (my wife thinks that is weird, she is probably right). If you are a pilot thinking about one of these communities, or you just want me to watch for the quiet ones that never make the MLS, lets talk. I understand both sides of this, the real estate and the runway, and there are not many agents around here you can say that about.
Be safe, be good, and be nice to people.
