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| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Shepherds Grove - Suffolk, England |
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File Description:
RAF Shepherds Grove is a former Royal Air Force station located 9.9 miles (15.9 km) north-east of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
The Station was originally built for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force during the Second World War. However the facility was not used by the USAAF and was opened by No. 3 Group RAF on 3 April 1944. The name came from a small copse nearby and the airfield is close to Walsham le Willows in Suffolk.
It was occupied by No. 196 Squadron RAF in January 1945 as a base for Operation Varsity, supporting the Rhine crossing.
Various American units occupied the station after WW2 but ended their use of the unit in December 1958.
On 22 July 1956, No. 82 Squadron RAF was activated at Shepherds Grove as a Thor missile unit. Thor launching sites were built on the main airfield and became operational in 1959.
The base was closed in 1966. Third party files are required - see the readme.txt for details.
| Filename: | RAF_Shepherds_Grove__Suffolk_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 4th December 2015, 09:34:13 |
| Downloads: | 160 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 13.26 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Andreas - Isle of Man |
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File Description:
RAF Andreas, operational between 1941 and 1945. Presently the airfield is used primarily for Gliding. Located to the northern end of the Isle of Man. To use the included scenery file you should have the Runway 12 Libraries installed.
| Filename: | RAF_Andreas__Isle_of_Man.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 25th September 2007, 17:10:13 |
| Downloads: | 1,359 |
| Author: | Tony Meredith |
| Size: | 913.08 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Bircham Newton - Norfolk, England |
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File Description:
RAF Bircham Newton is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south east of Docking, Norfolk
and 13.4 miles (21.6 km) north east of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England.
The site was first used during the First World War and received the largest British bomber of the time, the Handley Page V/1500. They would have carried out bombing missions against Berlin but the Armistice was arranged before any missions were actually flown.
The airfield was equipped with one aircraft repair shed and three double bay general service sheds, although these had been demolished by 1937. It had two Belfast hangars, three C Type hangars, three Bellman hangars and ten Blister hangars. It operated through the Second World War as part of No. 16 Group RAF as part of Coastal Command.
No. 206 Squadron RAF was one of the squadrons being based there, on maritime patrol duties. Two satellite airfields, RAF Docking and RAF Langham were opened to accommodate units. In 1965 the airfield was used for evaluation trials of the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel V/STOL aircraft.
After closure as an operational airfield in 1966, the airfield became the home of the Construction Industry Training Board. The runways have gone, but the majority of buildings on the site, including some hangars and the control tower, remain in use by the CITB.The control tower was demolished in 2010 due to its poor condition. Constructionarium is also based within the estate, providing a week's practical learning opportunity for undergraduates
| Filename: | RAF_Bircham_Newton__Norfolk_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 25th December 2015, 18:15:50 |
| Downloads: | 362 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 1.6 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Hooton Park - Cheshire, England |
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File Description:
RAF Hooton Park, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, was a Royal Air Force station originally built for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 as a training aerodrome for pilots in World War I. During the early/mid-1930s, it was one of the two airfields (with Liverpool Speke) handling scheduled services for the Merseyside region. Hooton Park was home to No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron and, post World War II, to No. 611 (West Lancashire) and No. 663 (AOP) Squadron.
The airfield closed in 1957 after the disbandment of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, but the three pairs of Belfast Truss hangars erected in 1917 survived the closure. The site was bought by Vauxhall Motors, who built their Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant there, which today produces the Vauxhall Astra. A small remaining section of the airfield site is now owned and managed by The Hooton Park Trust. The hangars are also home to The Griffin Trust and an aircraft preservation society named The Aeroplane Collection. Another part of the old airfield, including a length of the old paved runway, perimeter track and the apron used to park Meteor jet fighters, remains in the ownership of The Naylor Trust. A Second World War B1 hangar is also on this site.
Third party add-on's will be required see the readme.txt for details.
| Filename: | RAF_Hooton_Park___Cheshire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 13th December 2015, 12:12:02 |
| Downloads: | 196 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 1.47 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| X5OU - RAF Ouston - Northumberland, England |
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File Description:
Royal Air Force Ouston,is a former Royal Air Force station that was located near the village of Stamfordham and the village of Heddon-on-the-Wall on Hadrian's Wall near Newcastle upon Tyne. The station opened on the 10 March 1941 and closed for flying in September 1974. As with many airfields the Army moved in and the station was re-named Albemarle barracks.
RAF Ouston was built with many brick building as well as the usual wartime temporary building so many of the models here are right for the station. If you have Ian Pearsons vehicles and Ted Andrews scenery libraries your station will populated with many buildings.
| Filename: | X5OU__RAF_Ouston__Northumberland_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 1st December 2015, 17:12:35 |
| Downloads: | 194 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 12.93 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF High Ercall - Staffordshire, England |
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File Description:
RAF High Ercall is a former Royal Air Force station situated near the village of High Ercall, seven miles north-east of Shrewsbury.
It was a post expansion station with work starting in 1938, however, personnel started arriving before it was fully finished in 1940. The unit had a variety of permanent buildings mainly located on the main unit site and the temporary accommodation and sick quarters were located on the south of the airfield.
The station closed for good in February 1962. Source: Wikipedia.
| Filename: | RAF_High_Ercall__Staffordshire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 18th December 2015, 23:37:52 |
| Downloads: | 228 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 2.03 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| X2MB - RAF Membury - Berkshire, England |
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File Description:
RAF Membury (ICAO X2MB) is a former Royal Air Force station built in the civil parish of Lambourn in Berkshire, England. The airfield is located approximately 4.6 miles (7.4 km) mi north-northwest of Hungerford, at the Membury services stop of the M4 motorway; about 60 miles (97 km) miles west-southwest of London. The airfield also lies immediately next to the Iron Age hill fort of Membury Camp.
Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). During the war it was used by several combat units with varying missions. It was also a major supply and maintenance depot. After the war, it was a private airport until the construction of the M4 motorway in the 1960s when it was closed.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property with the former technical site now being an industrial estate (Membury Business Park).
Source: Wikipedia
| Filename: | X2MB__RAF_Membury__Berkshire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 7th April 2016, 17:26:37 |
| Downloads: | 127 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 1.63 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Tilstock "1944" - Shropshire, England |
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File Description:
Construction of the airfield was completed by mid 1942, and it open on 1 August that year, with a classic three concrete runway RAF "star" arrangement. The name 'Whitchurch Heath' being used until 1 June 1943, when RAF Tilstock was adopted.
Between 1 September 1942 and 21 January 1946, the airfield was used by No. 81 Operational Training Unit and No. 1665 Heavy Conversion Unit Royal Air Force for the training of pilots and crews in the operation of Whitley, Stirling and Halifax heavy bombers. During the 1950s, Auster AOP.6 and Auster T.7 'spotter' aircraft of No. 663 (AOP) Squadron RAF used the facilities of the otherwise non-operational airfield during weekends for liaison flights with Royal Artillery units on training exercises.
The airfield is still being used today at weekends for skydiving and has the ICAO code EGCT.
| Filename: | RAF_Tilstock_1944__Shropshire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 10th June 2016, 14:29:25 |
| Downloads: | 136 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 2.74 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| X1WL - RAF Welford - Berkshire, England |
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File Description:
RAF Welford (ICAO X1WL) is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England. The airfield is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Newbury; about 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of London.
It opened in 1943 and was used during the Second World War by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces.
During the war it was used primarily as a transport airfield. After the war it was closed in 1946 and placed in reserve status. As a result of the Cold War, the station was reopened in 1955 as a munitions depot by the United States Air Force.
Today it is still used by the United States Air Force although not as an active airfield.
Source: Wikipedia
| Filename: | X1WL__RAF_Welford__Berkshire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 6th April 2016, 18:50:16 |
| Downloads: | 265 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 1.65 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Honeybourne 1945 - Worcestershire, England |
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File Description:
RAF Honeybourne was a Royal Air Force station located 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of Honeybourne, Worcestershire, England and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Evesham, Worcestershire, England.
The airfield was home to No. 24 Operational Training Unit RAF (OTU) which used Vickers Wellingtons and Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys from 15 March 1942 until July 1945 flying many operational bombing and leaflet dropping operations.
A number of units from Ferry Command were based here including a ferry training unit using Lockheed Hudsons and Bristol Beauforts.
The airfield was also temporarily home to No. 21 OTU flying Wellingtons from RAF Enstone from August 1945 for two months because the runways at their home base were being repaired. From October 1945 until 1946 107 Sub Storage Unit from No. 8 Maintenance Unit used the airfield for storing Wellingtons and General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders.
The role of the airfield after the war changed with the reduction of flying movements and with a slight change in what the units did on the airfield when No. 107 Sub Storage Unit from 1947 began to collect no longer needed Wellingtons which were then scrapped and taken to Weston Subedge goods yard (which was near to the south-western corner) where the railway would take them to the necessary destination.
In July 1948 the site was closed and much has reverted to farmland with runways being removed in 1968. Since then, the airside area has evolved into the Honeybourne Airfield Trading Estate with the five hangars being used for different purposes.
| Filename: | RAF_Honeybourne_1945__Worcestershire_England.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 3rd June 2016, 11:00:06 |
| Downloads: | 133 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 2.29 MB |