Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
PABV - Birchwood airfield - Anchorage, Alaska - USA

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File Description:
Birchwood PABV is in Alaska, some 20 miles northeast of Anchorage, on the south shore of Knik Arm. It is a smaller version of Merrill Field, almost entirely for just GA aircraft and the maintenance shops that a gathering of such aircraft attracts. The main runway is just over 4,000 feet long, aligned L01-R19 and asphalted and lit; this last is even more important in Alaska with short winter days. There is also a shorter and parallel runway that is gravel and which receives no winter maintenance; this is for winter use by planes that are on skis, rather than wheel/skis. This is not unusual and is found at other Alaska airfields. This scenery provides a place to fly to from my previous posts of Merrill Field and Lake Hood close to Anchorage. There will be others in this series, on the northern side of Knik Arm.