Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
CYXD - Edmonton City Centre - Alberta, Canada V1

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File Description:
Edmonton is in central Alberta, Canada. The City Centre airport has had other names (Edmonton Municipal, Blatchford Field) and was the first licensed airfield in Canada, in 1929. The history of aviation in northern Canada would not be complete if Edmonton was not included as a chapter in its own right. Unfortunately progress takes little notice of past glory and CYXD has now been closed and will be "redeveloped", in sharp contrast to the thriving City Centre airport in Toronto. This version for FS9 includes in the AI a 737 of Western Pacific, an airline that became Canadian Airlines in a merger in 1987. So this CYXD is maybe in the middle eighties, or perhaps the middle nineties with a vintage 737 being used for short haul to Calgary for sentimental reasons. Scheduled flights were in fact stopped in 1995, with the field being used for GA, charter flights, and medical evacuations etc since then. I have included many of the surrounding buildings, as the "City Centre Airport" really is surrounded by and part of the neighbourhood.