Up, up and away on Horseshoe Bay airport debate

HORSESHOE BAY — Living next door to the Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport has its advantages.

That’s according to aviator J.T. McMahon, who does, indeed, reside by the airport — with his airplane parked right there.

“I just take my plane out of the hangar (attached to his residence), go around the corner and put it in on the taxiway,” he said. “People ask me if it gets noisy living so close. I like the sound of planes taking off.”

PHOTO: J.T. McMahon, an aviator, who lives adjacent to the privately owned Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport, serves on a committee considering whether the city should buy the facility. He and other Horseshoe Bay Airport Committee members —  John Bird, Jim Long, Ken Lindgren, Bob Mark, Evan Roberts and Jim Thorne — recommended the city wait on research by the resort on the feasibility of converting the facility for public use. Staff photo by Connie Swinney

But while McMahon loves flying, he doesn’t allow his passion to color the decisions he makes on a committee at the center of a debate over a proposed sale of the privately owned Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport to the city.