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| Category: Flight Simulator X - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications | |
| Consolidated PBY-5A (C-FCRR) |
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File Description:
This folder contains a repaint for the Aerosoft PBY Catalina for FSX. It is shown here as C-FCRR, with Air France colors. Built by Boeing of Canada at Vancouver, it became RCAF Canso 9767 on March 4, 1943, and was allocated to Squadron 162, coded S, at Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1944, piloted by Flying Officers Thomas Charles Cooke and Eric Walter Wiskin, 9767 sank the German U-boat U-342 off the coast of Iceland on April 17. The amphibian was removed from the military service on April 1, 1946. The same year it was sold to Canadian Pacific Airlines, registered CF-CRR and assigned fleet number 233 (later 933), it was operated until 1959, thereafter by Northland Airlines (1960-1968), Midwest Airlines (1969-1970), and Ilford Riverton until 1973. The registration was changed to C-FCRR when Avalon Aviation acquired it as a water bomber in 1977, listed as Tanker number 791.
In 1995 the aircraft was bought by Powell Eorp. Of Parry Sound, Ontario, subsequently it was owned by the Canadian Air Legend. The French pilot Franklin Devaux bought C-FCRR in 1995 and converted it to a flying television studio, it was based at Le Bourget, Paris, France. During 1996 C-FCRR was the star of monthly French television programme Operation Okavango, while in September 1998 it was the eye catcher of the three-week Champs-Elysees (Paris) static air show. The following October the aircraft started an 8,078 mls (13,000 km) trip to Chile via Dakar (Senegal) and Natal (Brazil) to commemorate early Air France South Atlantic mail service, returning to France in June 1999. On January 19, 2002 the aircraft was stored at Orly Airport, Paris, and has not flown since. Its Canadian registration was cancelled on October 7, 2005. At present it seems to be registered as N9767, and in airworthy condition again. Here's a youtube movie on this aircraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jyzV8Gawc. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by Aerosoft.
| Filename: | Consolidated_PBY5A_CFCRR.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 13th July 2018, 20:34:21 |
| Downloads: | 154 |
| Author: | Jan Kees Blom |
| Size: | 9.83 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Tholthorpe |
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File Description:
RAF Tholthorpe opened in the late 1930s as a grass airfield, and operated as a sub-station of RAF Linton-on-Ouse.
From August 1940 to December 1940, Tholthorpe was a landing field for Whitley bombers of No. 58 Squadron RAF and No. 51 Squadron RAF based at Linton. From January 1941 to June 1943, Tholthorpe underwent maintenance to upgrade to Class A standards, with three intersecting concrete runways.
RAF Tholthorpe was assigned to No. 6 Group RCAF in June 1943. RCAF squadrons stationed here included No. 434 Squadron "Bluenose", 431 Squadron "Iroquois", 420 Squadron "Snowy Owl", and 425 Squadron "Alouette".
No. 434 Squadron, flying Halifax bombers, was formed and headquartered at Tholthorpe airfield from June 1943 until the squadron was moved to Croft. In July 1943, 431 Squadron moved to Tholthorpe airfield from Burn. It was later moved to Croft airfield as well. Not only were the operational squadrons quartered here, also their service echelons, - respectively Nos. 9431 and 9434 Service Echelon - which were formed from the ground crew of nos. 431 and 434 Squadron on 3 November 1943 and who moved with their squadrons on to Croft in December 1943.
In December 1943 No. 420 and No. 425 Squadrons (together with their service echelons, nos. 9420 and 9425 Service Echelon were moved to Tholthorpe airfield from Dalton and Dishforth respectively. These squadrons had returned from service with Wellingtons in North Africa, and it took them several weeks to work up on the newly acquired Halifax bombers. They were therefore unable to fly their first raids from Tholthorpe until mid-February 1944.
No. 420 Squadron flew 160 operations from Tholthorpe airfield and lost 25 Halifax’s. No. 425 squadron flew 162 operations from Tholthorpe airfield and lost 28 Halifax’s. In all, 119 Halifax bombers were lost from Tholthorpe. In April and May 1945 nos. 420 and 425 Squadron converted to Avro Lancaster’s, which they took with them when they left for RCAF Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada in June 1945.
The station closed in June 1945.
| Filename: | RAF_Tholthorpe.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 9th May 2017, 20:41:48 |
| Downloads: | 140 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 4.63 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - AFCAD Files | |
| Parker Airport (70NJ), NJ |
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File Description:
Located 02 miles S of Asbury, New Jersey on 13 acres of land, Parker Airport is a private turf strip located on residential property. This airport is challenging in many ways. For one, when approaching from the southeast the airport is located immediately after a tall ridge, so when topping this ridge at altitude you may not even see the airport over the nose of your aircraft before you overfly it. The runway for this airport is 1600' feet long but it is curved and slightly sloped perpendicular to your roll, so significant rudder will be needed to stay aligned - be careful when operating with any crosswind component! It is highly recommended that you only depart via Runway 25 and arrive via Runway 07 to avoid having to clear significant obstacles prior to landing or after taking off. This airport has no hard-surfaced runway and there is a very noticeable "bump" in the terrain halfway down the runway that will literally bounce your aircraft into the air - I tried my best to smooth it over but could not get rid of it entirely. When taking off make sure you have back pressure applied so your main gear only bounce you high enough to remain within ground effect - hitting your nose wheel can cause an extreme pitch up leading to a stall. Trees close in tight to the runway at the end of Runway 07 or the start of Runway 25, however collision has been disabled with the trees nearest the runway so you can scrape some branches if needed on the takeoff/landing rolls. The author has successfully departed and arrived on both runways in the default Cessna 172 under moderate crosswind from the northeast. This field may definitely require some practice but it is usable!! This airport has no edge lighting, so daytime VFR operations only are recommended.
Scenery constructed with use of satellite images/streetview/aerial photos - the author has not been there in person.
This scenery is meant to be used in conjunction with MegaScenery Earth New York 007. It is not required, but apron use is minimized to allow satellite scenery to show through as much as possible, and objects are placed based on the MSE textures - lack of it may make scenery look out of place.
| Filename: | Parker_Airport_70NJ_NJ.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 10th February 2011, 05:04:30 |
| Downloads: | 215 |
| Author: | Drew Sikora |
| Size: | 559.02 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Original Aircraft | |
| Airbus A318 FD Special Version V3 - Light Pack |
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This is the new version of my Airbus A318 with the Panel in V3 opened on the A321 - here in a light pack version, included is 1 livery only (Frontier Airlines NR807 Painted by Derek Mayer & Steve Mac Bee of PA Team).
This light pack contains only the user manual in english version (and low resolution). If you want the french version of this manual, use the "zipdrive" function with the complete pack of this aircraft (search by name file "pa318fd_v3.zip"). This light version has been made by request for all those with low download speeds and limits.
The original complete pack is available HERE (filename: pa318fd_v3.zip)
I remind you that this aircraft is based on the Project Airbus A318, with an ehanced panel based on the work of stefan Liebe.
This latest development can see the more realistic Airbus available as freeware. With a new version of the panel, the aircraft has a 100% cold & dark Status at the start of a flight, a real fuel system management with all valves, piumps and crossfeed work, the complete Bleed circuit with X-bleed, a real engines manual startup procedure like the real aircraft. I have also ehanced the navigation display with TCAS function in ARC and NAV mode; There is also the engines failure procedure to work (fire, oil leaks....) and many improved function that I cannot describe here. The aircraft comes with user manual in English and in French, and it is essantial to read it before you fly.
All the functions of the V2 have been kept and improved, like the vertical navigation gauge, the terrain radar map on the navigation display, the autolanding function, the SFCC.
This version is only in CFm engines, but with real engine data (CFM56-5B9) and custom HD sounds. Now, the Fly By wire works in 2 modes: "Normal Law" and "Direct Law". I put 300 hours into the development of this panel and I hope that you will like it.
Please, note that this panel is the v3.05 version, witch fixes the bugs of the first version that came with the A321 (there is an update panel for the A321).
So, It seems that this aircraft works with PREPAR3D
Francois Dore
| Filename: | Airbus_A318_FD_Special_Version_V3__Light_Pack.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 14th July 2012, 15:34:06 |
| Downloads: | 6,734 |
| Author: | Francois Dore, Project Airbus |
| Size: | 64.88 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Sounds | |
| ATC Voices - Airport names set 13 |
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File Description:
A collection of 67 additional, improved or corrected airport names, for
use with Flight Simulator 2004 and FS2002. Installation requires the
EditVoicepack software (see
http://bevelstone.xs4all.nl/FlightSimulator/EditVoicepack) by Lars
Møllebjerg which is also available as a free download from the usual
Flight Simulator download sites such as Avsim.
The airports represented here are:
1X1 Higgins (United States of America),
2E3 Cluck Ranch (United States of America),
CYCC Cornwall Regl (Canada),
EDSK Kehl-Sundheim (Germany),
EFKJ Kauhajoki (Finland),
EG74 Jurby (United Kingdom),
EKOD Odense (Denmark),
ENOP Oppdal (Norway),
ENZ6 Frya (Norway),
EPZP Przylep (Poland),
ES0G Mantorp Park (Sweden),
ESGS Stromstad/Nasinge (Sweden),
ESGV Varberg (Sweden),
ESSK Gavle-Sandviken (Sweden),
ESSW Vastervik (Sweden),
FD98 Ferguson (United States of America),
FZRA Manono (Congo DRC),
KBJJ Wayne Co (United States of America),
KDYR Dyersburg Mun (United States of America),
KELD El Dorado/South Arkansas Regional (United States of America),
KIDL Indianola (United States of America),
KLLQ Monticello Mun/Ellis (United States of America),
KPBF Grider (United States of America),
KPKD Park Rapids (United States of America),
KUOX University-Oxford (United States of America),
KVPC Cartersville (United States of America),
KWWR West Woodward (United States of America),
LFIM St Gaudens/Montrejeau (France),
LFRI Les Ajoncs (France),
LIRQ Florence/Peretola - fixed (Italy) - fixed,
LKCT Chotebor (Czech Republic),
LKPO Prerov (Czech Republic),
NFNK Lakeba (Fiji),
O07 Westheimer (United States of America),
OICS Sanandaj (Iran),
OIMN Bojnord (Iran),
ORSU Sulaymaniyah International (Iraq),
RJSC Yamagata (Japan),
RJSY Shonai (Japan),
RPUW Gasan/Marinduque (Philippines),
RPVT Tagbilaran (Philippines),
SBNF Navegantes (Brazil),
SPAS Andoas (Peru),
SPMS Yurimaguas (Peru),
SSGB Guaratuba (Brazil),
TFFS Les Saintes (Guadeloupe),
TN83 Cedar Glade (United States of America),
ULL9 Gostitilsy (Russian Federation),
ULLD Gromovo (Rusian Federation),
ULLG Gorelovo (Ruissian Federation),
ULPW Sortavala (Russian Federation),
W11 Menomonie (United States of America),
WARR Surabaya/Juanda (Indonesia),
WARS Semarang/Achmad Yani (Indonesia),
WIOD Tanjung Pandan/Buluh Tumbang/H.A.S. Hanandjoeddin (Indonesia),
XCN Coron/Busuanga (Philippines),
Y95 Hillman (United States of America),
YADD Arubiddy Station( (Australia),
YBAL Balladonia (Australia),
YECL Eucla (Australia),
YNRB Narembeen (Australia),
Z19X Aozou (Libya), plus
BOJNORD INFORMATION Beajnord (Iran),
BUDEJOVICE PRECISION Budejovice (Czech Republic),
KARSHI Karshi South (Uzbekistan), and
PRYZLEP AERO Przylep Aero (Poland),
| Filename: | ATC_Voices__Airport_names_set_13.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 22nd February 2008, 09:20:06 |
| Downloads: | 3,089 |
| Author: | John Hinson |
| Size: | 44.06 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AI Aircraft | |
| 43 x Boeing 737-200 (replacement of lost files) |
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File Description:
Here are some of my repaints of B737-200 that got lost through the attack on AVSIM file library. You'll find zip-files corresponding t0 the registration numbers of the aircraft. readme-files are included in every zip-file. Just unzip the b732.zip and use what you like. Following aircraft are included:
AerolÃ�ÂÂnea Principal 737-236 Adv (CC-CZO) Chile /
Africa Charter Airline 737-200 (ZS-SIL) South Africa /
Air Corridor 737-200 (C9-BAM) Mozambique /
Air Inuit 737-200C (C-GAIG) Canada /
Air Malawi 737-200 (ZS-PUI) Malawi /
Airfast Indonesia 737-200 (PK-OCP) Indonesia /
Avolar Aerolineas 737-200 (XA-UHY) Mexico /
Best Aviation 737-200 (S2-AAI) Bangladesh /
Bionic Aviation 737-200 (ZS-PVU) South Africa /
CityLine Hungary 737-200C (HA-LEW) Hungary /
Delta Connection 737-200 (5Y-JAP) Kenya /
East Air 737-200 (EY-533) Tajikistan /
Eastok Avia 737-200 (EX-736) Kyrgyzstan /
EuroLine 737-200 (4L-EUL) Georgia /
Flying Carpet 737-200 (OD-LMB) Lebanon /
Inter Air Airlines 737-200 (ZS-SIH) South Africa /
Inter Air Airlines 737-200C (ZS-IJJ) South Africa /
Jatayu Airlines 737-200 (PK-JTY) Indonesia /
Kartika Airlines 737-200 (PK-KAD) Indonesia /
Marsland Aviation 737-200 (ST-SDA) Sudan /
NasAir 737-200 (E3-NAD) Eritrea /
NasAir 737-200 (E3-NAS) Eritrea /
National Airways Cameroon 737-200 (XU-UHZ) Cameroon /
Norse Air 737-200 (PK-YGF) South Africa /
Pacific Pearl Airways 737-232 (RP-C8777) Philippines /
Pamir Airways 737-232Adv (YA-PIR) Afghanistan /
Pamir Airways 737-268 (EX-311) Afghanistan /
PMT Air 737-200 (XU-U4F) Cambodia /
Principal Airlines 737-236 Adv (CC-CZK) Chile /
Regional Paraguaya 737-200 (ZP-CAJ) Paraguay /
Rollins Air 737-200 (N332DL) Honduras /
SAT Airlines 737-200 (RA-73003) Russia /
SCAT Airlines 737-200 (UN-B3707) Kazakhstan /
Slok Air International 737-200 (C5-NYA) Gambia /
Tahmid Air 737-200 (EY-533) Kazakhstan /
Tahmid Air 737-200 (UN-B3709) Kazakhstan /
Tahmid Air 737-200 (UP-B3703) Kazakhstan /
Tajik Air 737-200 (EY-532) Tajikistan /
Top Air 737-200 (PK-BPW) Indonesia /
Transworld Aviation 737-200C (JY-TWC) Jordan /
Weststar Aviation 737-200 (N413JG) Malaysia /
Xpress Air 737-200 (PK-TXF) Indonesia /
Zara Airways 737-200 (ZS-SIL) Tanzania /
| Filename: | 43_x_Boeing_737200_replacement_of_lost_files.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 6th June 2010, 09:00:58 |
| Downloads: | 3,443 |
| Author: | Uwe Hoffmann |
| Size: | 20.21 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files | |
| Sorted POI global cities and airports pack for FSDiscover! |
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File Description:
README:
FSDiscover! Global Point of Interest pack.
Here is a poi pack of roughly 147 000 cities, 40 000 small airports,
1 177 seaplane bases, 4695 medium airports and 475 of the largest
airports.
Airports are split up in categories, small, medium, big, seaplane base.
Cities are split up into files of 10 000 cities each by size.
There are 15 files for cities.
The smallest cities are in xaa, xab, xac, xad, and so on.
The biggest cities are in xam, xan, until xao.
You should open the files in notepad to see for yourself which city
files to activate in FSDiscover! to balance clutter and detail.
This has been my main problem with the default populated places list;
there is no way to sort by population size
Compared to the default FSDiscover! populated places here are some
notes:
I have noticed that in the default FSDiscover! set for europe and many
other places, the coordinates are placed like on a "honeycomb" grid
which obviously is not very precise. In general, in terms of city map
precision, this pack should be better.
In the default pack, in an area I am familiar with, a city was placed on the other side of
a river compared to reality. In many other areas, you can clearly see
that the cities are not well-aligned with Ultimate Terrain europe or
even some places in UT USA. My theory is that either data was not super
precise for europe to begin with or that the dataset has been arranged
in the honeycomb grid fashion perhaps to reduce clutter or something.
Mostly though, the default populated places FSDiscover! file is very
useful for really small villages since these tend to be forgotten in
other datasets. The problems come when you want to filter out smaller
villages or airports. This is where this pack comes in handy.
Since no data is perfect, you can use this pack alone or in
combination with the FSDiscover! defaults. Personally, I put the same
files in both "Documents/FSDiscover Files" and
"Program Files/FSDiscover" so I can pick and choose a useful combo
from relevant sets inside the options.
Personally, I prefer the cities from this pack and the rest
(mountains, rivers etc.) from the default FSDiscover! pack.
INSTALLATION:
Just unzip the archived files into "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\FSDiscover Files"
or "C:\Program Files (x86)\FSDiscover!\geodata" or both!
I do not know if the geodata folder is completely overwritten some
times or not so keep that in mind. (probably safe, though)
AUTHOR:
fs9_2003 thanks to data made available by opendatasoft.com and ourairports.com
The source for cities:
https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/geonames-all-cities-with-a-population-1000
The source for airports:
https://ourairports.com/data
| Filename: | Sorted_POI_global_cities_and_airports_pack_for_FSD.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 6th May 2024, 14:13:54 |
| Downloads: | 53 |
| Author: | Kim Husainov |
| Size: | 3.18 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Cyprus: Airfields plus landmarks and land class for all of Cyprus and AI |
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Cyprus, an island in the eastern Mediterranean. Without the benefit of Ultimate Terrain, which does not exist for Cyprus, the land class provided by FS9 stands out as hopelessly inadequate. I have added the extensive farmland and the larger towns and villages, plus the major roads. Four completely new airfields are included here, three in the north and one in the south. Ercan LCEN is in the north and functions as the airport for all of the north. It was recently closed for two years while a new terminal was built and the runway updated and an apron extended etc, and during that time Gecitkale LCGK functioned (barely) as the airport for the north. Gecitkale is now hardly used at all. The third northern airfield is Ilker Karter LCIK and this functions as the HQ base of the Turkish Army Corp in northern Cyprus. The last of the new airfields is Kingsfield LCRE, which is in the Sovereign Base area to the east of Larnaca and is now used for recreational purposes. Ercan is now undergoing further expansion with a new runway and a new terminal building and apron, so this scenery is for the period between 2010 to 2015. My set up of Cyprus already included a payware Larnaca by Aerosoft (now only 12 euros) plus a freeware Paphos, Nicosia, and Akrotiri; that was my starting point. Larnaca has been the major airport for Cyprus since the mid 1970's, with a huge tourist trade that peaks in the summer but which is year long (almost a million Brits visit every year, let alone the other nationalities). I have adapted this (gate sizes etc) to allow parking by a multitude of B737's and others. Nicosia is freeware (posted in 2010) and I have included modifications to reflect its now total disuse. Paphos is at the far western end of the island and freeware, and I have modified this to allow larger and military ai aircraft to function properly; the poster improved his first version to better cater for ai but I was unaware of this and I have stayed with my modifications. Akrotiri is freeware and includes a lot of library object input from MAIW. I have modified the parking somewhat and added further residential areas and munitions storage. The AI is based upon recorded take offs and landings in April, with some further additions in later months. At Ercan the visible gate numbers on the apron are as per real life, but the numbers within FS9 reflect the fact that planes are directed to gates at the centre of the terminal building and not at the far ends. Follow the pink line and obey ATC when it says taxi to gate number 2 even if it is visibly numbered 4.
| Filename: | Cyprus_Airfields_plus_landmarks_and_land_class_for.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 13th August 2017, 21:21:46 |
| Downloads: | 950 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 29.61 MB |
| Category: Prepar3D V1-4 - Flight Plans | |
| CargoJet Flight Plans |
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File Description:
Attached is an Excel Flight Planner including recent (Jan/Feb 2019) scheduled flight plans for CargoJet for use with the CaptainSim 757-III Freighter expansion.
A couple of weeks ago, I made two CargoJet liveries for the CS 757-III Freighter, available at Avsim:
https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=&Author=meier&CatID=p3dacrp
To use these files, copy the attached .rt files to your Captain Sim route directory:
*\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\Captain_Sim\757-III\Routes\
These accompanying route files (60+) DO NOT include any SID or STAR data, nor do they include any performance information (cargo/fuel weights)...I've intentionally tried to keep these files customizable with any ATC program you may be using.
The Excel spreadsheet use should be pretty straight forward (it was designed using MS Excel 2019...you'll need MS Excel 2013 or newer for the macros to work correctly).
The spreadsheet will open to a worksheet containing CargoJet's current, scheduled route network. From this worksheet, simply select a departure location from the buttons on the world map.
Once a departure location is selected, a second "Flight Planning" worksheet will open with a UserForm Box directing you to select an airport destination based upon your selected departure location.
The UserForm box is pre-populated only with current destinations from that departure airport (based upon current CargoJet Jan/Feb 2019 schedules obtained from online flight tracking data).
I've included a weather snapshot download from each of the departure and destination airports into the flight planning worksheet.
I have not yet included enroute weather information...that may come in a "V2" of this flight planner.
As I have not yet included enroute weather information, flight fuel calculations/fuel burn are only approximate for now. Down the road, I may also include calculations for derate temperatures...that will take considerable more work.
I think this Flight Planner is a pretty good version 1 for sharing. In the absence of a website dedicated to a "CargoJet Virtual Airline", I thought this Excel spreadsheet and accompanying flight plans may be of benefit to anyone who might enjoy flying the CS757-III Freighter expansion with CargoJet livery.
Personally, I was fortunate to already have the full compliment of SimAddon airports (Canada wide) which makes for enhanced enjoyment of the CaptainSim 757-III add-on and this flight planning spreadsheet. (That statement wasn't intended as a promotion for people to go out and buy the SimAddons software!!!)
I haven't had a chance to test all the flight plans yet...I'm hoping I haven't made any errors!
Anyhow, I hope this spreadsheet and flight plans can be of benefit to others.
Feedback always appreciated!
Rob
February 15, 2019
| Filename: | CargoJet_Flight_Plans.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 16th February 2019, 22:00:12 |
| Downloads: | 170 |
| Author: | Rob Meier |
| Size: | 1.93 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications | |
| Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX EN186 Bluebird |
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File Description:
Spitfire IXc EN186 was the personal aircraft of S/L L.C. Wade, an American flying with the RAF. Wade was born in the small farming community of Broaddus, Texas in 1915. He was the second son of Bill and Susan Wade, who named him L.C. (only after the RAF demanded a forename did he call himself Lance Cleo Wade). After the family moved to a farm near Reklaw, Texas in 1922 he worked on the family farm and attended the local school. He was unable to join the US Army Aviation Cadet Program due to a lack of a college education. He began flying at age 17, at Tucson, Arizona. In 1934 at age 19, Wade joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Arizona. He joined the RAF in Canada in December 1940 and trained with No. 52 Operational Training Unit (OTU). Wade was then sent to the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal and flew off her deck in Hawker Hurricane to reinforce the depleted ranks of aircraft on the island of Malta. He was then sent to Egypt as a Hawker Hurricane Mk I pilot in September 1941, and was posted to 33 Squadron. The squadron's mission was to provide close air support for Operation Crusader, the British assault launched on November 18, 1941, against the German Afrika Korps. His first kills were two Fiat CR.42s on 18 November. He attained the rank of "ace" on 24 November 1941. He began flying Hurricane Mk IIs in April 1942, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). He had 13 victories as of September 1942. He spent the next several months back in the US on various RAF projects including evaluating some American fighters at Wright Field. He returned to combat as a Flight Commander in 145 Squadron with a Bar to his DFC, flying Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vs. Promoted to squadron leader, he had a busy 60 days, as by the end of April his score was 21, by then flying Spitfire Mk IXs. His squadron moved to Italy, and as a Spitfire VIII pilot he claimed two Focke-Wulf Fw 190s of Schlachtgeschwader 4 on 2 October 1943. His last claims were three FW 190s (again of SG 4) damaged on 3 November. Wade became a wing commander and joined the staff of the Desert Air Force but was there only briefly, as he was killed in a flying accident on 12 January 1944 at Foggia, Italy. In 30 fights for which he made claims he was credited with 23 victories including two shared), one probable, and 13 damaged. He is also credited with one destroyed and five damaged on the ground.
Wing Commander Wade is usually listed with 25 victories but official RAF records show that he had 22 solo victories and half each of two more for a total of 23, not counting one probable. Regardless of whether his score is 25, or 23 victories, he is still the leading American fighter ace to serve exclusively in any foreign air force.
Since he never transferred to the USAAF, or any other American Air service, Wade never got the publicity that other American aces received and thus is more obscure than his peers.
The aircraft depicted in this repaint, EN186, started its active career with 249 sqn on Malta, who used it for high flying reconaissance, and who were responsible for replacing the dark green with Mediterranean Blue. The aircraft was then transferred to Tunisia, where it was the personal aircraft of W/C Gleed of the 244 wing. After his death, it went to L.C. Wade, who scored 5 victories with it in april 1943. He did not apply any codes to it, and referred to it in his logbook as BB, for Blue Bird. He flew it till august 1943, when he changed to flying Spitfire MK VIII JF472
Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by RealAir.
| Filename: | Supermarine_Spitfire_MkIX_EN186_Bluebird.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 11th July 2018, 16:54:01 |
| Downloads: | 104 |
| Author: | Jan Kees Blom |
| Size: | 3.59 MB |
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