Copeland has his own private airport next to his private mansion and it's all naturally tax free. Copeland paid the FAA to commission his own private instrument approaches to his private airport and he pays the FAA to periodically certify them for use. The problem is that unless he makes his airport public use, someone can built a communications tower on his private approach which would decertify it. So even though Copeland doesn't want transient aircraft using his private airport, he makes it public use out of necessity.
The great part about this is that Copeland's airport is one of the few in the area that has crossing runways which makes it ideal for practicing crosswind landings. The other two notable examples are DFW and Dallas Love, neither of which will allow touch-and-go practice landings. So when I want to go out and practice landings in my plane, I go to Copeland's, and naturally I show up at the crack of dawn. While on the downwind, I fly right over his mansion knowing I've just woken up everyone in the place. It's too bad he doesn't have a PAPI on his main runway, or I'd practice night landings there around 2am.
http://skyvector.com/airport/4T2/Kenneth-Copeland-Airport
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