An airport is for sale in Essex, Ont., but the family is looking for the right buyer
CBC
It’s not every day that an opportunity to buy a family home with an airport in its backyard arises but right now there’s one on the market in Essex, Ont. The siblings who are selling it say they are looking for the right kind of buyer before letting it go.
“It’s our parents' legacy, right? The Essex Airport,” Debby Taylor said.
“I want to keep it as the Essex Airport, you know and whoever buys it can go on from there,” her brother Paul Harrington Jr. added.
The property, which is located on a gravel road on Coulter Side Road, is listed for just under $1.9 million and it includes 10 acres of land, upon which lie three airplane hangars, a family home and a federally registered grass covered airstrip — all built by the Harrington family.
The property was the brainchild of the late Paul Harrington Sr., a pilot and aircraft maintenance engineer who established the Essex Airport in 1978 along with his family and late wife, Ann.
“It was 10 acres and it was just dirt… well I think it was beans back then,” Harrington Jr. said, adding that his father did the extra work to get it federally licensed.
“This is a very unique piece of land, it’s different,” Paul Harrington Jr. said. “It’s not something you see everyday.”
He followed in his father’s footsteps as an airplane mechanic and says they bought the property after he helped his father rebuilt a Taylorcraft airplane.
“Our parents had a dream of having airplanes behind their house and so they bought a piece of property and here we are,” Taylor said.
“Well, dad’s dream,” Harrington Jr. added. “[Our mother] wanted to make sure our dad was happy.”
Harrington Jr., Taylor and Taylor are two of three siblings that grew up on the property. They say their childhood wasn’t about normal things like amusement parks growing up, but rather, it was “all about airplanes.”
“This was our Cedar Point,” Taylor said.
The airport was known for its “fly-ins,” where pilots and their families would land at the airport in what could be described as a community meet up.
“[It was] kind of like a car show but for airplanes,” Taylor said. “Everybody would bring a dish to share with everybody and our parents would have hotdogs and hamburgers for everybody.”
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