This is the founding home on storied Pecan Plantation’s original airpark — built in 1974, nearly ten years before any of its neighbors. No home on the field is better positioned to indulge our shared passion.
The property’s 1.5 lots are abeam the aiming point of Runway 19 — the calm wind and preferential runway.
Now, the Amazon guy might call its west side the “front,” but this house’s owners are sheltered from the afternoon and evening sun out back, where all the action is. It’s got the best seats on the field for watching airplanes, and you’ll barely need your Ray-Bans.
Nine years of intentional renovation have transformed this founding home on the original airport into a modern showpiece, retaining all the character of the original structure, all at the absolute prime location on the runway, with a detached, professional-grade hangar twenty steps from the back door.
Aerial · 0TX1 Pecan Plantation · 9013 Woodlawn Dr
The kitchen faces the parking pad. Any time, night or day, the view outside the window is the pinnacle of your achievement.
This detail can’t appear on a spec sheet, but it never leaves the mind of those experiencing it. Fly-in living isn’t merely a concept here. It is the view out the kitchen window.
View from kitchen window · golden hour
The detached 50×40 hangar sits twenty steps from the back door. Recently climate-controlled with a full HVAC system. Inside: a professional automotive service post lift, 8 years-old polyurea floor coating with a fifteen-year warranty, ultra-bright LED bay lighting throughout, a breakroom that invites sloth — with toilet, sink, and tankless hot water — and a finished loft above it. The bi-fold door opens clean, full-width, no drama.
The same polyurea coating runs through the attached two-car garage. The hangar has simultaneously housed a Mooney, a GTO, a Camaro SS, a vintage RX-7, and a beamy 18-foot Fish ’n Ski. Whatever you bring, there is room.
The county’s top contractor took the bottom floor down to studs and rafters. Rewired it. Re-sheet-rocked it. The full second floor was buttressed with engineered beams. Now a 1974 structure stands tall upon 2024 bones, with an open stairway, vaulted entry ceiling, and a wood-burning fireplace anchoring the living room.
Two sliding barn doors appear in the main living area — one closing off the laundry and pantry, the other separating the original living room from the studio and the addition’s master suite. Both were built from wood reclaimed from the property’s original backyard fence, which was in disrepair when the current owners arrived in 2017. They are, as advertised, very distinctive.
Fully remodeled last year. Knotty alder cabinets, quartzite countertops, travertine backsplash, a hammered copper farmhouse sink at the window wall, and a copper prep sink in the island. A separate wet bar adds a third copper sink — round, with copper hardware and a wine cooler alongside. Three copper sinks in one house, all tying back to the copper tub down the hall. The pantry, with its floor-to-ceiling open shelving and rolling library ladder, is the kind of thing that makes people stop talking mid-sentence.
The front porch was rebuilt five years ago with a vaulted copper standing-seam roof — a detail that photographs at any hour and ages better than anything on the street. Austin Stone lines the corners of the original brick lower story and wraps the entire face behind the front porch. The upper story is new dark board-and-batten siding, installed at the same time. The whole composition reads as intentional — and vaguely reminiscent of a caramel cappuccino…sweet. Strong. Enlivening.
A full-length roof vent was installed in 2025, again by the county’s top contractor, atop a fresh layer of Class 4 impact-resistant shingle — a storm-resistance designation that earns big insurance benefits in Texas. A couple or three pairs of raised eyebrows will be the whole conversation about the roof after inspection.
The lawn’s healthy from years of professional treatment, and the property’s been carefully landscaped with native flora. Prickly Pear, Texas Lilac, Texas Sage, Red Yucca. Every March, you’ll wonder how long before the Bluebonnets cover the entire property. A Pecan and an Oak, both meticulously trimmed, have shaded the front yard for decades.
Front elevation · blue hour
Upstairs Primary Suite
Natural hardwood floors, plantation shutters, private bath. The original character of the founding structure, intact.
Second Master Suite — Addition
Single-story, direct pool access, hammered copper soaking tub, glass-block window, chandelier, his-and-her walk-in closets, new hardwood floors. Reads as original construction.
Second master bedroom · vaulted ceiling · French doors · direct pool access
This was a full rebuild. The shell stayed. Everything else was replaced — new plaster, new coping, stone retaining wall, water and fire features, in-pool chaise lounges, new LED in-pool lighting, and a wi-fi-enabled control panel wired in fresh. Only the pump, filter, heater, and plumbing were retained, all already under ten years old. The covered back porch runs the full width of the addition — wired for string lights, ceiling-fanned, and oriented to catch the Texas evening air. American and Texas flags fly year-round.
Runway 01/19 · 0TX1 Pecan Plantation · twilight
Runway 01/19 at Pecan Plantation is private-use, residents-only asphalt — 3,500 feet with PAPI and an FAA-approved, FAA-maintained GPS RWY 19 approach. Outside the Class B airspace that increasingly chokes the skies around DFW. No tower. No fees. No waiting. The on-field avgas co-op offers the cheapest fuel for miles.
You’re on your last leg home, and the weather’s supposed to have cleared by now, but it’s stubborn at 600 and 2. No problem. FTW Center clears you for the GPS 19 approach, you activate the pilot-controlled lighting at the FAF, and — poof — there it is, right where you left it. Twenty steps from the kitchen to the keypad. Not just your home base…you’re HOME. 9013 Woodlawn Dr., Granbury, TX.
Major systems, structure, and surface — virtually everything you see and most of what you don’t has been replaced, upgraded, or reinforced since 2017. The work was managed throughout by DT Construction, Hood County’s top contractor.
Granbury’s historic downtown square — 20–25 minutes from the gate — is among the most recognized in Texas. Pecan Plantation functions as a full resort community: two golf courses, a full-service marina on Lake Granbury, clubhouse with two restaurants, tennis, pools, RV campground, canoe put-ins, an archery range, three riverside parks, and numerous member and owner-only clubs and organizations. All golf-cart accessible.
Fort Worth and DFW are both northeast, at 45 and 90 minutes’ distance by car. Grand Prairie is 15 minutes by plane. Addison and Love Field both 30. Just saying…
The Landings, Pecan Plantation’s second airpark, has sold its final homesites in under two years on surging demand. Once those are gone, this market has no new supply. It has only resale.
Pecan Plantation was featured in The New York Times: “Flying, Golfing and Living. All in the Same Place.” — Christine Negroni, Sept. 2020.
Granbury, TX · Historic downtown square
This property is being offered pre-MLS to qualified buyers in the aviation and enthusiast community. Serious inquiries only. Contact the listing agent directly.