Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
Skelling Farm

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ORBX England Skelling Farm home of Eden Soaring Club X5SF Skirwith Penrith Cumbria.Home to strong rotor known locally as "the Helm"

Filename:	skelling_farm_orbx_england.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	26th August 2014, 07:52:37
Downloads:	190
Author:	Jon Davidson
Size:	35.15 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
RAF Horsham St Faith - Norfolk, England

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RAF Horsham St Faith is a former Royal Air Force station near Norwich, Norfolk, England which was operational from 1939 to 1963. It was then developed as Norwich International Airport. The airfield was first developed in 1939 and officially opened on 1 June 1940 as a bomber station. It had been built pre-war and had five C-type hangars, permanent brick and tiled buildings with central-heating and a high standard of domestic accommodation. RAF Horsham St. Faith was a front-line RAF station for many years, and its squadrons participated in many post-war exercises. The station was deactivated on 1 August 1963.

Filename:	raf_horsham_st_faith.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	9th February 2016, 11:17:44
Downloads:	224
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.98 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
X2RB - RAF Ramsbury - Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

File Description:
RAF Ramsbury is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8.0 km) east-northeast of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces. During the war it was used primarily as a transport airfield. With the end of military control Ramsbury was returned agricultural use. By the mid-1960s, much of the concrete had been removed.

Filename:	raf_ramsbury.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	11th April 2016, 16:24:25
Downloads:	120
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	823 KB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
EGVA - RAF Fairford 1944 - Gloucestershire, England

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RAF Fairford (IATA: FFD, ICAO: EGVA) is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Gloucestershire, England which is currently a standby airfield and therefore not in everyday use. RAF Fairford was constructed in 1944 to serve as an airfield for British and American troop carriers and gliders for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden during World War II.

Filename:	raf_fairford-1944.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	14th April 2016, 12:06:35
Downloads:	222
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.51 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
X2DA - RAF Down Ampney - Gloucestershire, England

File Description:
RAF Down Ampney (ICAO X2DA) was a Royal Air Force station located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north east of Cricklade, Wiltshire and 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. The airfield operated during World War II from February 1944 until February 1947. Down Ampney was part of a group of 3 airfields with RAF Broadwell and RAF Blakehill Farm dedicated to air transportation. No. 48 Squadron RAF and No. 271 Squadron RAF flew Douglas Dakotas on major missions. On D-Day they dropped the main elements of the 3rd Parachute Brigade in Normandy as well as towing Airspeed Horsa gliders across the English Channel. They were also active in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem) and the Rhine crossing. Source: Wikipedia.

Filename:	raf_down_ampney.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	16th April 2016, 11:37:35
Downloads:	147
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.94 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
X1BK - RAF Blakehill Farm - Wiltshire, England

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RAF Blakehill Farm (ICAO X1BK) was an RAF airfield situated in Wiltshire, England. The station was originally allocated to the United States Army Air Forces Ninth Air Force but not used. It opened in 1944 and was home for transport aircraft of No. 46 Group Transport Command. In 1948 the airfield was a satellite of RAF South Cerney and used by training aircraft before the airfield closed in 1952 and was returned to agricultural use. After WWII, GCHQ set up an "experimental radio station", a top secret research facility, on the site of the RAF's wartime airfield at Blakehill Farm. It consisted of huge communications masts arranged in mysterious strategic patterns in the middle of the old airfield. The site was still active in some capacity until the mid 1990s and traces of the former antenna bases can still be seen on satellite photographs. The site is now a Wiltshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve.

Filename:	raf_blakehill_farm.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	18th April 2016, 09:23:07
Downloads:	160
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	2.25 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
RAF Tarrant Rushton (1944) - Dorset, England

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RAF Tarrant Rushton was a Royal Air Force station near the village of Tarrant Rushton east of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England from 1943 to 1947. It was used for glider operations during World War II and later revived for civilian operations. It is currently disused, though some buildings survive.

Horsa gliders from Tarrant Rushton left for France on the eve of D-Day, to begin Operation Tonga with an action that would later become known as Pegasus Bridge. Among the glider pilots was Jim Wallwork, on a Horsa nicknamed Lady Irene. The Tarrant Rushton gliders landed in occupied France shortly after midnight. Wallwork's aircraft was the first to touch down, but it landed heavily: the force of the impact catapulted both Wallwork and his co-pilot John Ainsworth through the front of the cockpit. Although stunned, this made them the first Allied troops to touch French soil on D-Day.

Other gliders were later flown from the airfield to Arnhem to take part in Operation Market Garden. During the closing stages of WWII, aircraft were used for SOE operations.

Filename:	raf_tarrant_rushton.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	22nd April 2016, 22:27:09
Downloads:	173
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.18 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
X2AD - RAF Aston Down - Gloucestershire, England

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Former RAF Aston Down (IACO X2AD) is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, South West England and 6.9 miles (11.1 km) west of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The airfield was originally opened as RAF Minchinhampton and was first used in the First World War, serving as an aerodrome for the Australian Flying Corps with No. 2 Squadron AFC flying the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a and the Sopwith Pup and No. 3 Squadron AFC flying the Avro 504. The airfield closed shortly afterwards. In 1938 the airfield reopened under the new name of RAF Aston Down at the request of the residents of Minchinhampton village, which lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west of the airfield, who feared not enemy attack, but a fall in the value of their houses. During the Second World War the main unit present was No. 20 Maintenance Unit RAF (MU) which stored and prepared aircraft. The unit arrived during October 1938 and left in September 1960. The airfield was used by the Royal Air Force from the First World War until 1967 when the Cotswold Gliding Club moved in from their previous base near Tetbury.

Filename:	raf_aston_down.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	3rd May 2016, 13:55:23
Downloads:	173
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.96 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
RAF Upper Heyford "1940s" - Oxfordshire, England

File Description:
RAF Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Bicester near the village of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England.