New Building on Airport Road
Does anyone know what's going up on Airport Rd. About a mile from the blinking light, it looks like a huge warehouse?
Laura B 
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strangerdanger "Where is the blinking light on airport road?"
I was going to ask the same thing.
Calico696 There is only one light at all at the end of Airport Road at Route 57 by Walmart. If its a mile from there right about at the top of the hill, then there isn't any new building at all. There are some barriers preventing people from going back the access road. But it's all just open land.
GC Not airport road in Mansfield. I believe OP is talking about airport road in Tranquility/Green. The blinker light is at the intersection of CR 517 and airport road.
To answer the OPs question, I think its a storage facility. No clue why I think that. Someone may have told me, I may have read some signage by the entrance or I'm simply fabricating it in my mind based on the building's design.
maja2 
JeffersonRepub It is in Green and it is green - a grass strip. I have landed there many times to practice soft field techniques.
Reggie Voter Hackettstown has an airport, Stranger. N05. Technically in mansfield. Although calling it an airport is generous.
http://hackettstownairport.com
Trinca airport, 13N, in Green has some construction across the road and up the hill. I haven't been by there in a while to know what it might be. Trinca is on Airport Road in Andover AKA Sussex 603 (A short drive from a blinking light off 517)
alpha1beta What no one else uses Hackettstown International Airport? Direct daily flights to Paris, Dubai and Hong Kong.
lol I agree calling it an "airport" is generous. (Shouldn't there be some sort of office/terminal building for an airport?) It's more like an air strip - and just one step above those in Africa where you have to shoo the lions off the runway before you land. But convenient and fun for those in the area with small planes, for sure.
Rebecka If I had a small plane (a Super Cub would be cool), and a pilot's license, I'd park her there... and walk there through the woods from my house (in Diamond Hill).
As long as there's a smooth strip (paved or not), and a gas pump, it's an airport.
TONS of airports all across the country just like Hackettstown. I've spent plenty of time at them, as well as "more normal" airports (dad was a pilot), with a small tower (oftentimes not, just the control building), occasionally they'll have a restaurant there (Blairstown)... that reminds me, I've been meaning to get out to Blairstown's airport diner....
Nothing wrong with Hackettstown, unless you want hangar space or to sit around chewing the fat with other pilots (I remember most old pilots did more of that than actual flying LOL)
Think she is referring to Tranquility Farms - they are building a permanent farm stand on Rt. 517 not Airport rd across from Pub 517.
http://www.tranquillityfarmsnj.com/directions
ru So sorry everyone yes I guess it's actually Green, blinking light at corner of 517 and Airport Rd. Towards Trinca Airport.
Botheredbyuu2 I like the Hong Kong airports; the old one was more fun than Reagan International. Paris, not so much. And Dubai ----- it's on the list.
Does HI (Hackettstown International) have an 800-number for reservations? I hear the parking is just swell.
No no SD- you misunderstand. The Hackettstown Airport (and Trinca) are airports for people who LOVE TO FLY, not for people who "have to get somewhere" or are making money on "people who have to get somewhere".
Not many people who aren't pilots would understand. I only do because I grew up around it my whole life, and dearly wish to be a private pilot myself.
JR, maybe you already did this, but if not, why not look into a Sport Pilot certificate?
RV
It was one of my dreams to be a private Pilot. I built and flew models growing up, I never could justify the cost. My neighbor used to take me up in a Piper Cub once in a while out of Westfield Airport. If he took me, he could sit in the front seat.That was in the late 40's It was grass like Hackettstown Airport.
Old Gent We must share a similar childhood, JR. And yes, small airports are for pilots who do it for the true joy of flying.
Does anyone here fly, or know anyone who flies, a mosquito or mosquito-type craft? The ultralight helicopter-type craft, I mean (not the old mosquito war plane).
Ultralight? You mean those hang gliders with lawnmower engines? LOL
I actually saw a guy killed on takeoff in one of those once. Engine quit on takeoff. Nowhere to go.
Reggie, it comes down to this: very few people have the money and the time to do everything they want to do in life. Airplanes were my dad's #1 thing. Guitars and music are mine. (altho if I had the time and the money, airplanes could easily become my "tied for #1" thing).
If, for example, I won the lottery (doesn't have to be a big win, just enough to retire early and payoff the house.... and buy a plane lol), I would most likely start pilot training and start looking to buy a used Super Cub. Because I would have the time and the money to do so.
Dad actually let me fly his Aeronca Chief, altho I never did land it.
The day after the last snowstorm, I saw somebody doing touch-and-gos from Hackettstown WITH SKIS on the plane... first time I've seen that around here.
I always thought that an "airport" had to have some commercial use, either passenger or cargo. Places that were only for private recreational pilots were either "airfields" if there wasn't a paved runway or "airparks" if there was. Semantics, I know... but I get frustrated when there isn't some sort of logic involved (-;
ianimal "Not many people who aren't pilots would understand." Ah, the loneliness of the pilot and those who grew up around it their entire lives.
I think J. Hoff explained it pretty well myself. He wasn't your father, was he?
Indie 21 ?!?! WOW... I never would have guessed that. Is there some official source for the info? I'd like to get a look, for Sussex as well... just out of curiosity.
There's a guy out past Rt31... on the way to Asbury (maybe he's IN Asbury), that has a small ranch (home) right on the road... but must own the enormous field next to his house because, he's got a full-length paved runway (well, long enough for a Cub to take off from, which doesn't require much) and a hangar! Right there in his "back yard". How cool would that be???
That would be very cool!
i only mentioned the sport pilot license because it is a lot less costly and time intensive than the private license.
JR, I can get all of those views, without the feeling that I'm gonna fall and die with my drone. It's much safer and cheaper...barely.
There are tons of airports, airstrips, helipads and private airports in NJ. With the drone laws, you are supposed to follow, if you have a drone, you need to know where they are, and what class airspaces your in.
The fed's have an app, B4UFLY, but its terrible and slow. Airmap has an app and a website, https://app.airmap.io/ which are great for drone pilots and anything interested in seeing the area's airspace and airports.
Interesting that it says Mars has a power plant and WRNJ has a helipad.
You peeps r 2 funny... the warehouse in question was built by the Stacker company down the road however they are having some problems with permit in order to occupy it.
Monjie "JR, I can get all of those views, without the feeling that I'm gonna fall and die with my drone. It's much safer and cheaper...barely."
...and not the same thing. AT ALL. But again, unless you've been bitten by the bug, you wouldn't understand. I won't even try to explain it. Trying to talk about "why people fly" is like trying to dance about architecture.
I'm a musician, I play guitar. WATCHING someone else play the guitar, while enjoyable, is not the same thing. I'm an avid hiker, I've done the entire A.T. in NJ. Watching someone else hike the A.T. on a DVD is not the same thing.
I'm not interested in drones at all. In fact, they annoy me a little. I think they'd be fun target practice (if they were in my yard) :)
Altho I saw a guy flying an electric radio-controlled model airplane out at field of dreams... it was a P-51 Mustang. Looked really fun. Quiet (unlike the gas-and-oil screamers when I was a kid), guy was doing loops and Immelmans and cuban eights, probably not cheap...
In another topic. It was said to be a farm stand. I know exactly where you are talking about. It next to the church in Tranquility.
It's amazing how no one understands that Airport Rd is actually.... Airport Rd. LOL
Tranquility Farm's new farmstand is on Rt 517.
The huge building/warehouse being discussed is on Airport Rd, if heading north it's on the right side of the road, up on the little hill. It's been a construction entrance for a long time, the building is more recent (altho still not that recent).
Airport Rd (Rt 603) vs Rt 517 (Decker Pond Road)
That building is over a year old. Weird place to build such a large building. Must be a right off.
"must be a right off"
In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld to Kramer- " you don't even know what a write off is".
Funny scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
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