Spruce Creek is considered a unique residential communities in the world almost every family in town to own a private aircraft, and it also was viewed as one of the main vehicles of residents of the town.
The small town of Spruce Creek, located on the southern coast of the famous Daytona, Florida, the USA with more than 5.000 inhabitants, but houses more than 1.300 700 hangars. The whole town is surrounded by the runway. And instead of building a garage, most of the houses in town have private hangars, private access to the main runway with the GPS's directions.
For those passionate about flying in the sky, the Spruce Creek is like a paradise. The collection of aircraft Spruce Creek diverse, from the individual aircraft to Boeing, even light is both the jet fighter.
Besides the main vehicles for this, you will also easily find the luxury car and parked outside the expensive houses in town as Lamborghini or Porsche GT2, sometimes motorcycle collection large enough to block the line segment.
A residential community in Spruce Creek mounts very closely together. Most of them are professional pilots, they sometimes also used aviation terminology to communicate. The majority of the others are doctors, lawyers, merchants selling real estate.
On some Saturday morning, residents in this town would gather together next to the runway, together take off and fly to one of the local airports for breakfast a tradition are the locals here called "Saturday morning humming".
But Spruce Creek is not the only community in the United States. The idea of the flying community such as this start rekindled from after World War II when the number of pilots and airport in America increased quickly from 34.000 pilots in 1939 to more than 400.000 in 1946.
To take advantage of the military base were withdrawn across the country with large numbers of trained pilots, the civil aviation authority has proposed building a residential airport community 6.000 all over the country. Although the amount proposed was never a reality, but this development proposal has created motivation as well as attract the fascination with the profession in response.
Today, there is more than 600 flight community in the United States focused more in the States of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Texas and the Washington. However, Spruce Creek is the largest community. This community development has also rekindled pinch spread to other countries such as Canada, South Africa or Costa Rica.
