8483 SE 71ST AVE Ocala, FL 34472

One or more photo(s) has been virtually staged. (rooms de-cluttered; furniture, area rugs, mirrors, artwork added/removed) Pilots, don't dream about it, live it! Leeward Air Ranch (FD04) is one of America's favorite private sport aviation communities. Your 65 acre backyard playground is a 6200’ x 165’ lighted, stabilized, reinforced, all-weather VFR runway. Mac Mclellan of Flying Magazine calls it "... the most perfectly constructed and maintained turf runway...". Your new gated, active flying community here in Central Florida offers about 300 flying days a year, and almost 200 hangar homes and aircraft call it home. Think warbirds, antiques, classics, light sports, home-builts, kit planes, aerobatics (ask about IAC practice area!), amphibs, helicopters, gliders, and the list goes on. EAA, IAC , QB, Warbirds of America, 99's, Humble Squadron, Florida Aero Club, Florida Antique Biplane Association, Intl 180/185 club, Angel Flight Southeast. Fly-ins, fly-outs, warbird roundups, aviation days, Aerobatic demo days, friends and family breakfast. Active casual social environment. Happy hours, many holiday events, light up Leeward parade. Motorcycle rides, bridge club, poker nights, etc. Meet your new lifelong friends at the famous "Red Barn". Restaurants, shopping, access to health health care nearby. The Main home features 4 bedrooms (4th bedroom currently used a Den), 3 1/2 baths and boasts over 3350 sf of living area and 3 car attached garage features tall ceilings, Hickory floors, Silestone countertops, Hickory cabinets and more. Walk out onto your covered Lanai to access your private swimming pool and spa surrounded by a brick paver deck and encompassed by a 44' x 26' screed cage. Now for the good stuff. Enter your 70'50'x16' hangar w/ 44' wide door. featuring a 16'x50' in-law suite and shop area (bedroom, bathroom, living area and shop area), with 800 sf of upstairs mezzanine storage. Wait, there's more! Bring your RV/boat, and/or other toys to your separate 46' x 26' x 16' tall toy barn. Backup generators for both house and hangar/toy barn. New roof in 11/2022. Current Pilot's certificate and aircraft ownership required to purchase property in community (ask for details). Seeing is believing. You won't be disappointed. It would take well over $1.6M to reproduce this property.