Orville and Wilbur Wright would probably feel right at home in this Orlando-area home.

Currently boarding guests as a themed vacation rental, High Flight in Reunion, FL, is on the market for $3,499,000.

And its up-in-the-air motif is melded directly into the home.

“The most notable feature is actually a retired military Puma helicopter—and it actually flew and served in Afghanistan and Iraq,” explains listing agent Ashley Wilt, with Titan Realty Group. “The helicopter itself has actually been deconstructed in a few different ways.”

The first part of the decommissioned chopper can be found in the game room. And it features an oh, so appropriate entertainment feature.

“It’s a flight simulator,” Wilt reveals. “When you get up into it, there are few different flight seats that you can sit in and have simulations. That’s the body of the helicopter.”

The cockpit sits upstairs in one of the themed bedrooms.

“They can actually go into the cockpit, and the lights have all been rewired so they can control all the lights in the room,” Wilt explains. “So the cool features around the room are actually controlled in the cockpit.”

The back part of the cockpit now serves as bunk beds, so kids can sleep inside a real helicopter.

Even one of the rotors was repurposed and is affixed to the side of the main entry stairwell as a statement piece.

“The bottom is on the floor, and then it goes up to the ceiling on the second floor, and you can see it all the way up,” Wilt notes. “It’s very impactful.”

Another bedroom boasts a real biplane, painted baby blue.

“There are murals painted all over the walls, so it looks like the sky with clouds,” Wilt says. “The floor has been painted to look like a map of Disney, so it looks like you’re flying over Disney World.”

A racing simulator in the home is also over the top.

“It’s a 1930s Jaguar that’s been converted into a racing car simulator, so instead of just a standard little seat that you see in an arcade, it is actually integrated into this 1930s Jaguar,” Wilt says.

While some rooms are totally tricked out, the flight theme is subdued in the more sedate areas of the 10-bedroom, 10-bath house.

“It’s a bit more mature and still elegant, but it all ties into aviation,” Wilt explains, adding that there is a space room, a hot air balloon room, and other similarly relevant decor. “The tie-in is still flight theme, but they’re not kitschy. They’re very elegant. The home is very cohesive and designed to flow throughout.”

There are military flight suits, tables made from plane wings, memorabilia, flags, photos, and other artwork. Perhaps most notably, near the entry, there’s a huge canvas emblazoned with a poem many pilots have to memorize in flight training.

“It is called “High Flight,” hence where the house got its name,” Wilt says of the famous poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr. “The letter was blown up in the original handwriting, and [the designer] traced over it to get the exact handwriting on a stretch canvas.”

That designer, by the way, is HGTV’s Theme Queen Moe Anato.

“The sellers were very much included in the design process,” Wilt says. They “wanted the general living spaces to be something that is still glamorous and luxury but not overly in your face, themed out.”

The themed rooms were the exceptions. They needed to be different, and Anato rose to meet the sky-high task.

She distinctly remembers embarking on the mission of making the home an aviation-themed wonderland.

One of the owners “found a place that has salvaged airline parts,” Anato recalls. “When I got there, I started walking around, and I saw this helicopter; but I couldn’t really tell what it was. I got this feeling in my gut, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what this is, but I have to have it. It’s the coolest thing I have ever seen.’”

But procuring that helicopter was no small undertaking—it showed up at the house as one 63-foot-long piece.

“I don’t know if it is creativity or craziness,” Anato admits. “I had no question in my mind that we’re going to utilize it and put it in the house.”

Upon delivery, she didn’t know exactly how she was going to make it work.

“We got it in the driveway and cut the nose off and got a forklift in there,” she says. “We had to bend a few pieces to get them up the stairs.”

The home was completed in 2022 and can be rented out for anywhere between $700 and $1,200 a night, via short-term rental sites. At those rates, a new owner could potentially reap roughly $130,00 to $180,000 in annual income.

Any current bookings would convey with the sale. The home has a pool, sits on one of Reunion’s golf courses, and is close to the Disney theme parks.

“Because it is so specific, I think [the buyer] will be someone who can really appreciate it,” Wilt predicts. “But also somebody that … would be able to make back a little money on their investment.”

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