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| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Shepherds Grove - Suffolk, England |
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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: | 159 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 13.26 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Skipton On Swale |
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RAF Skipton On Swale is a former Royal Air Force station operated by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War.
The village of Sandhutton is located just to the east. RAF Skipton-on-Swale was a sub-station of RAF Leeming.
The airfield opened in autumn 1942, becoming operational in May 1943, originally a 4 Group facility and first hosted
420 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), which moved to RAF Middleton St. George in October 1942. Skipton was
assigned to No. 6 Group, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in January 1943. RCAF squadrons stationed here included 424
Squadron, No. 432 Squadron (which moved to RAF East Moor in September 1943), and 433 Squadron. Both squadrons flew the
Halifax bomber until replaced by the Lancaster in January 1945. 424 Squadron lost 52 aircraft and 433 Squadron lost 38
aircraft.
When Nos. 424 and 433 Squadrons were disbanded in October 1945 the airfield was closed. The station was not used again
and has since reverted largely to farmland. The site is home to turkey and pig farms.
Source:Wikipedia
| Filename: | RAF_Skipton_On_Swale.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 11th March 2017, 18:03:07 |
| Downloads: | 122 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 157.85 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Baker Lake CYBK in Nunavut, Canada |
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Baker Lake is the only Nunavut community that is not next to the sea. It is, as you might have guessed, on the shore of Baker Lake and 160 miles west and a bit north of Rankin Inlet on the shore of Hudson Bay (a recent post by Sid and Pete). The Hudson Bay Company opened a trading post there in 1916 and the town slowly developed, though as recently as 1946 the population was still only 32. These days the airfield is the support field for several nearby mines and there are now nearly 1,800 folks in Baker Lake using the stores, schools, churches, hospital, etc. The runway is almost 4,200' of 100' wide gravel and lighted; the alignment is 162T and 342T as this is in northern domestic airspace and bearings are given as 'true" and not "magnetic". Both JETA and 100LL fuel is available. The town is to the northeast of the airfield and is made up of a landclass without autogeneration, as this would mean a bunch of trees that would be, to say the least, unrealistic.
| Filename: | Baker_Lake_CYBK_in_Nunavut_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 23rd November 2011, 09:21:56 |
| Downloads: | 513 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.45 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| PABE - Bethel Airport - Alaska, USA |
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Bethel Airport is a state owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Bethel.
Construction began September 21, 1941, and the airfield was activated July 4, 1942; it is also known as Bethel Air Base. It was used by Air Transport Command as auxiliary airfield for Lend-Lease aircraft being flown to Siberia. The facility was transferred to Eleventh Air Force, then to Alaskan Air Command in 1945; it became the joint-use Bethel Airport. It was used for construction of AC&W Bethel Air Force Station in mid 1950s. Full jurisdiction was turned over to Alaska Government in 1958.
Added and adjusted aprons and buildings. Also added additional parking. Added runway 1R/19L.Re-numbered runways to conform with AirNav data.
Created with Airport Design Editor 9x by ScruffyDuck Software using current FAA documentation and Google Earth measurements, this package offers a replacement for FSX's stock airport. All these enhancements are as close to the real airport as I can get with stock library objects and custom buildings.
| Filename: | PABE__Bethel_Airport__Alaska_USA.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 5th December 2014, 13:35:35 |
| Downloads: | 989 |
| Author: | Wayne Roberts |
| Size: | 94.58 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| Steeple Morden |
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File Description:
This FSX scenery package is for Former RAF Steeple Morden, USAAF Station No. 122. It includes the main airfield and 14 of the outlying sites
that housed all of the inhabitants. Built in 1940 , originally a grass satellite field of Bassingbourn, Steeple Morden first accommodated the RAF No. 11 and No. 17 OTU (Operational Training Unit), flying Vickers Wellingtons and Bristol Blenheims respectively. The RAF used the airfield from 1940 to July 9th of 1943.
In July of 1943, the RAF turned the base over to the 355th Fighter Group of the 8th USAAF and concrete runways and hard stands were added.
The 355th were famous for destroying more enemy aircraft on the ground than any other unit in the USAAF.
They were dubbed, "The Steeple Morden Strafers" and were comprised of the 354th (WR), 357th (OS) and 358th (YF) Fighter Squadrons.
Study of the site plans and other information revealed that RAF Steeple Morden was very much interwoven with the village of Litlington, Cambridgeshire .
The base may have well be called RAF Litlington instead of Steeple Morden.
| Filename: | Steeple_Morden.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 25th June 2016, 23:51:18 |
| Downloads: | 335 |
| Author: | Terry Flemming |
| Size: | 83.9 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Cape Dorset CYTE, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada |
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Cape Dorset is a village of 1,300 or so inhabitants at N 64 13 W 76 31 on Dorset Island, off the southwest corner of Baffin Island. It's Inuit name is Kinngait, which means "High Mountains"; watch out if you fly there in low clouds. The village (again) does not feature in FS9 but is included in this scenery with approximately the right shape, or shapes as there are separate parts. The airfield runway is just under 4,000 feet of gravel 100 feet wide at 158 feet above sea level. There is a double gradient to it, but unfortunately this cannot be replicated in FS.
Cape Dorset had a Hudson Bay Company store as long ago as 1913, and is now known as a centre for Inuit art. I added the roads, a new airfield background, a pond between apron and runway, plus of course there is the scenery file and the AFCAD and AI, which has two planes visiting, a First Air HS748 and a Canadian North Dash 8-100, as per real life.
| Filename: | Cape_Dorset_CYTE_Baffin_Island_Nunavut_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 9th December 2010, 18:45:06 |
| Downloads: | 1,014 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.75 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| 13 Northern Ontario Airfields in Canada |
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These are 13 airfields in northwest Ontario, Canada. They were previously posted individually, but not on Avsim. There is a screenshot of Google Earth showing their names and locations. There are also updates to two previously posted airports, Red Lake CYRL and Sioux Lookout CYXL, and AI with the supply flights that are vital for these isolated outposts. Pickle Lake is a northern airfield that is connected to the rest of Canada by an all-weather road, and a large number of the supply flights originate from there. In fact these flights are the primary reason for the small towns existence. This will be followed by a posting of a similar number of northern Manitoba airfields. You may wonder about the numbers of fuel tanks at these airfields. These are not for the airfield use, they are for the settlement to be able to generate electricity and also to provide heating in the winter. If you find an error email me please, and note that my email address has been changed to rogwens at Gmail dot com.
| Filename: | 13_Northern_Ontario_Airfields_in_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 6th April 2021, 18:03:40 |
| Downloads: | 160 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 43.84 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Sioux Lookout CYXL in northwest Ontario Canada |
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Sioux Lookout is a small town of some 5,000 folks in northwest Ontario, towards the Manitoba border, and a regional centre for surrounding villages. The airfield is some two miles east of the town. It originally had two runways but the smaller was abandoned recently as part of a planned long term improvement of the field, leaving just 34/16 with its 5,300 feeet of asphalt. Both Wasaya and Bearskin fly to Sioux Lookout; on the field there are two maintenance companies, Eagle and Allen, and hangers for the Ministry of Health, Bearskin Airlines, Wasaya, and the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS). I think there is now another company too, but I have no information on them so I pretended this was two years ago. As well as the airfield scenery there is also a landclass file an "AFCAD" file for your AI aircraft. You should also download and install Northwest Ontario Airports by Eric O'Link, and preferably also have Ultimate Terrain; I have not tested this without UT and there is a small lake nearby.
| Filename: | Sioux_Lookout_CYXL_in_northwest_Ontario_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 26th November 2008, 13:08:04 |
| Downloads: | 851 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.66 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery | |
| RAF Church Fenton |
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File Description:
RAF Church Fenton (ICAO: EGXG) was an Royal Air Force station in North Yorkshire, near the village of Church Fenton.
Plans for a new airfield adjacent to the village of Church Fenton were announced in June 1935, it was subject to protest from the local population particularly concerning the waste of valuable farming land and was close to an existing airfield not far away at Sherburn. Despite the protests construction started in early 1936 on the site, which was a mixture of private and West Riding County Council-owned farm land.
On 1 April 1937, the station was declared open and on 19 April the first station commander Wing Commander W.E. Swann assumed command. Within two months No. 71 Squadron RAF had arrived with their Gloster Gladiators.
Second World War
Opened in 1937, the station saw the peak of its activity during the years of the Second World War, when it served within the defence network of fighter bases of the RAF providing protection for the Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Humberside industrial regions.
During September 1940, it became home to the first RAF "Eagle squadron" of American volunteers being No. 71 Squadron RAF. The airfield was also home to both the first all-Canadian and all-Polish squadrons, with No. 242 Squadron RAF for the Canadians and No. 306 Squadron RAF for the Polish.
As technologies evolved, the first night fighter Operational Training Unit (54 OTU) was formed at Church Fenton in 1940 and stayed until 1942. Some of the squadrons stationed there flew the famous de Havilland Mosquito.
Source and more information can be found at
:- http://military.wikia.com/wiki/RAF_Church_Fenton
| Filename: | RAF_Church_Fenton.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 9th June 2017, 19:06:49 |
| Downloads: | 179 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 13.72 MB |
| Category: Prepar3D V1-4 - Scenery | |
| RAF Burn |
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The Station opened in 1942 before closing in 1946, it hosted No. 431 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force as part of 4 Group RAF Bomber Command which formed at the airfield on 13
November 1942 flying Vickers Wellington Mark X aircraft while at Burn. On 15 July 1943 the squadron was transferred to RAF Tholthorpe and became part of No. 6 Group RCAF.
On 1 January 1944 No. 658 Squadron RAF moved to the airfield from RAF Clifton flying the Taylorcraft Auster III but left only seven days moving to RAF Doncaster but on 21 January
1944 the squadron returned, this time staying until 14 March 1944 when they moved to RAF Collyweston. The squadron was briefly joined on 31 December 1943 by 659 Squadron which
moved to RAF Clifton the following day.
During its use the airfield was also used by No. 10 Aircrew Holding Unit RAF.
On 6 January 1944 No. 578 Squadron RAF squadron was relocated to RAF Burn from RAF Snaith. This Bomber Command squadron flew Handley Page Halifax Mk. III before disbanding on 15
April 1945 and the station was closed for flying operations in July 1945.
On the night of 30 March 1944, Pilot Officer Cyril Joe Barton took off from RAF Burn in Halifax LK797 for a raid on Nuremberg, and won a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour.
Shortly after flying was discontinued, the Royal Army Service Corps took over some facilities to store surplus equipment. ] Many of the buildings have been dismantled but all
three runways remain intact and are used by Burn Gliding Club Ltd.
| Filename: | RAF_Burn.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 26th March 2017, 19:04:19 |
| Downloads: | 59 |
| Author: | Terry Boissel |
| Size: | 185.32 KB |
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