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Detailed Small Airports - Default 2024 Scenery

Bomber_12th

Bomber_12th

SOH-CM-2025
I've been finding over time that there are a number of very detailed, hand-crafted small airports in MSFS 2024 which aren't present in 2020. These often have custom-made hangars (some even with signs/logos matching the flight schools located at the airfield), and many hand-placed small details not found in any of the standard default airports. All of them have some connection to gliders/soaring, but most also have a standard GA presence as well. Those I've discovered so-far in the US include:

42B Goodspeed - Connecticut
40I (Red) Stewart - Ohio
20H9 Caesar Creek - Ohio
KSYN Stanton - Minnesota
S36 Grier - Washington
CA84 Torrey Pines - California
4NY8 Harris Hill - New York
87MO Richters - Missouri
K34 Gardner Mun - Kansas
H07 Highland-Winet - Illinois
3IL1 Silver Creek - Illinois
50M Puckett - Tennessee
1CD4 Eagle Soaring - Colorado
33V Walden-Jackson County - Colorado

Here are screenshots to illustrate some of these - all default 2024 scenery.

K34 Gardner Mun, Kansas:




42B Goodspeed, Connecticut:


40I Red Stewart, Ohio:


50M Puckett, Tennessee:



CA84 Torrey Pines, California:


KSYN Stanton, Minnesota (a primary training field during WWII, still with its original 1940s combined hangar and control tower):



H07 Highland-Winet, Illinois:


S36 Grier, Washington:
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read (somewhere) that developers could submit updated airports or sceneries directly to Asobo and they would implement them into the sim. As time goes on, more and more enhanced airports would become default.
 
There's a new tool, World Hub, that lets community members update airports, and some of these were incorporated. But when I played around with the 2020 version, it only allowed updates to the airport layout and addition of default objects; there was no facility for adding new 3D models, textures with flight school names, etc. like you're seeing in Bomber_12th's screenshots. People were complaining that it doesn't even support many stock MSFS airport elements. So I doubt these airports came from World Hub.
 
Since all of these airports have a glider/soaring aspect to them, I suspect they were included to help bolster the increased focus on gliders/soaring in 2024 (along with the increased number of gliders, improvements to flight dynamics, weather, and thermal dynamics). I know Stanton was already detailed this way on day 1 of the 2024 release, since it was the very first airport I loaded, and I fully suspect all of the others were too. To find more that may have been covered, I've been using this map of popular glider airports in the US: https://www.ssa.org/where-to-fly-map-2/ - most, but not all of the ones I've checked have been given this level of detail.
 
I seem to remember reading they called every glider port they could locate throughout the world to get specific info and pictures on their facilities and launch aparatis, winches, tow planes, etc, since they figured most all would be site specific, i.e. homemade.
 
The gliding airfield I fly from in real life (Hinton-in-the-Hedges EGDB (sic)) has certainly improved from FS20 to FS24, though it's too well preserved as the old WW2 concrete is very crumbled now. And it still needs more hedges :)
 
I checked Seminole Lake Gliderport (6FL0) here in Florida last night. Looks pretty generic. Some buildings are in roughly the right locations but no custom stuff.


Forest
 
Well, after spending a lot more time searching this past week, I've found a whole lot more! As a reminder, these are all new default MSFS 2024 sceneries, not present in 2020 and no addons required.

Here are some screenshots of a few more of my favorites:

0C2 Hinckley, Illinois



06N Randall, New York


EGDB Hinton-in-the-Hedges, UK



EGSZ Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club, UK



EGSM Beccles, UK


CKJ7 Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada



CNETS London Soaring Club, Ontario, Canada


CSS4 St-Dominique, Quebec, Canada


EBSH St Hubert, Belgium


EDST Hahnweide, Germany


LFFB Buno Bonnevaux, France


YSCN Camden, New South Wales, Australia


YCAB Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
 
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Here is a list of all of these types of airports that I've found thus-far, yet I'm sure there are still many more than this with countries I haven't looked at and some countries I only looked at briefly.

As I mentioned before, these particular airports are separate from the known "bespoke/handcrafted" types, but differ from all of the other default airports by often having many hand-placed details including chairs, tables, tents, playgrounds, cars, grass runway markers, custom-made and hand-placed hangars/airport structures, real world signage, precisely-positioned hedges, etc., more accurately matching the real world airports than the standard default scenery. The one thing they all share in common is the presence of hand-placed static gliders and glider trailers, with all of these airports being at least partially glider-affiliated. My particular interest are in the airports included in this list that also have standard GA and vintage GA operations as well. Most of these are perfect for flying Piper Cubs, Stearmans, Tiger Moths and the like, as you'll also find in reality. The only major exception to this, is that the majority of those I have listed for Japan are very strictly gliderports, with little to no infrastructure like hangars or FBO buildings, etc., but matching reality.

United States:
06N Randall, New York
0B7 Warren-Sugarbush, Vermont
0C2 Hinckley, Illinois
0L7 Jean, Nevada
0PA0 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14OI Pleasant Home Gliding Club, Ohio
1B5 Franconia, New Hampshire
1CD4 Eagle Soaring - Colorado
1I5 Feehold, New York
20H9 Caesar Creek - Ohio
2B9 Post Mills, Vermont
2O8 Hinton Mun, Oklahoma
2VA3 Merlin Aerodrome, Virginia
33V Walden-Jackson County - Colorado
3B3, Sterling, Massachusetts
3IL1 Silver Creek - Illinois
3VA8 Garner, Virginia
40I Stewart - Ohio
42B Goodspeed - Connecticut
4AR5 Lawrence Field, Arkansas
4CO2 Owl Canyon, Colorado
4DRTG Wichita Gliderport, Kansas
4NY8 Harris Hill - New York
50M Puckett - Tennessee
55LL Sky Soaring, Illinois
69G Richmond, Michigan
6A1 Butler Mun, Georgia
6HSKG Saint David Gliderfield, Arizona
6MS1 Woodbridge, Mississippi
79N Ridge Soaring, Pennsylvania
79NC Ball, North Carolina
87MO Richters - Missouri
8HSGR Antelope Valley Soaring Club, California
92A Chilhowee, Tennessee
AZ67 El Tiro, Arizona
AZ86 Coyote Run, Arizona
C56 Sanger, Illinois
C62 Kendallville Mun, Indiana
CA69 Avenal, California
CA84 Torrey Pines - California
CL35 Warner Springs, California
CN12 Williams, California
CO15 Kelly Air Park, Colorado
E68 Estrella Sailport, Arizona
H07 Highland-Winet - Illinois
I64 Wakeman, Ohio
I99 Alexandria, Indiana
Il59 Chicago Glider Club, Illinois
K34 Gardner Mun - Kansas
KAQW Harriman and West, Massachusetts
KBTA Blair Mun, Nebraska
KCZG Tri-Cities, New York
KFRR Front Royal-Warren Co, Virginia
KRFG Rooke, Texas
KSCD Merkel Sylacauga Mun, Alabama
KSYN Stanton - Minnesota
KWAY Greene Co, Pennsylvania
LA54 Gilliam, Louisiana
MT48 Flying Y Ranch, Montana
N82 Wurtsboro-Sullivan Co, New York
P15 Brokenstraw, Pennsylvania
S36 Grier - Washington
SC79 Bermuda High, South Carolina
TE71 Ghsa-Wallis Gliderport, Texas
TX23 Flf, Texas
U14 Nephi Mun, Utah
VA85 New Castle Intl, Virginia
VG22 Rockfish Arpk, Virginia
W73 Mid-Atlantic Soaring Center, Pennsylvania
WN76 Bergseth Field, Washington

United Kingdom:
EG3L Milfield Glider Field
EG50 Eight Ash Green Airport
EGAI Yorkshire Gliding Club
EGBH Dorset Gliding Club (Eyres Field)
EGBI Bidford Airfield
EGBS Shobdon
EGCJ Sherburn-in-Elmet
EGCR Aston Down Airfield
EGDB Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield
EGDD Bicester Airfield
EGDH Channel Gliding Club
EGDJ1 Upavon
EGGY Falgunzeon Glider Field
EGHU Eaglescott
EGHV Camphill Airfield
EGIU RAF Weston-on-the-Green
EGIV RAF Keevil
EGIW Shenington Gliding Club
EGJD Lleweni Parc Glyndwr Soaring Club
EGKC Bognor Regis
EGKN Kenley Aerodrome
EGKX Kirton-in-Lindsey Glider Field
EGLY Easteron Glider Field
EGME Bath Wilts & North Dorset Gliding Club
EGMMK Tuxford Road Darlton Gliding
EGMW North Wales Gliding Club
EGMX South Wales Gliding Club
EGNCG Currock Hill
EGNP Midland Glider Club
EGOF Norfolk Glider Club
EGPUD Kitson Field / Ringmer
EGRM Upwood Glider Field
EGSER Halesland
EGSM Beccles
EGSOL Talgarth
EGSON North Hill
EGSZ Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club
EGTP Perranporth
EGUG Sandhill Famr Airstrip
EGVS Southdown Gliding Club
EGVV Stratford-upon-Avon Gliding Club
EGXCS Postland / Spalding (Crowland)
EGXY Syerston
EGYV Portmoak Glider Field
EGZE Saltby Glider Field
EGZL Feshiebridge Airfield
EGZN Rivar Hill Glider Field

Argentina:
SAZC Zarate Airport
SAZE Pigue

Australia:
YBEV Beverley Airport
YBLA Benalla
YBSP Bond Springs Airport
YBUY Bunyan Airfield
YCAB Caboolture Airport
YCUN Cunderdin
YGCR Gloucester Airport
YKEP Lake Keepit Airport
YMGF Sunraysia Gliding Club
YMVM Mangrove Mountain Airport
YRYW Epsom Airport
YSCN Camden
YSFL Stonefield Gliding
YTWG Lockyersleigh Field
YTYH Tyagarah Airport
YWKI Waikerie
YWKW Warkworth Airport

Belgium:
EBSH St Hubert
EBTX Theux
EBWE Weelde AB

Brazil:
SOUNR Bahia Gliding

Canada:
CAA8 Invermere
CBS8 Alberni Valley Regional
CCN4 Conn Field
CEH2 Cu Nim
CFU3 Chipman
CJD2 Cudworth Muni
CJD3 Birch Hills
CKJ7 Starbuck
CNF3 Pendleton
CNV4 Hawkesbury
CPC3 Arthur East
CPL3 Rideau Valley Air Park
CPT3 Rockton
CSK5 Paquet
CSL7 Odessa / Strawberry Lakes Airstrip
CSS4 St-Dominique
CYBS Tottenham/Ronan Aerodrome
CYHE Hope
CYPI Brougham
CYRC Chicoutimi/St-Honore
CZPC Pincher Creek
CNETS London Soaring Club

Chile:
SCOM Olmué Airport

Cyprus:
LCYSH Cyrpus Gliding Club

Denmark:
EKBA Bolhede Glider Field
EKFI Frederikssund Nord Glider Field
EKFS Vjstrup Glider Field
EKGL Gørløse Glider Field
EKHM Hammer Glider Field
EKHO Holstebro Glider Field
EKKS Kongsted Svveflyveplads Glider
EKVE Gesten Glider Field
EKVI Ejstruphede Glider Field
EDKG Königsdorf Gliding Center

Finland:
EFME Menkijarvi
EFNU Nummela
EFSO Sodankyla

France:
LFBN Souche
LFBK Montlucon-Gueret
LFFB Buno Bonnevaux
LFGC Neuhof
LFJT Le Louroux
LFMF Fayence
LFNC Saint Crepin
LFOY Saint Romain
LFRP Loyat
LFUK La Motte du Caire Glider Field
LFUP Seyne les Alpes Glider Field

Germany:
ED36 Hornberg Airfield
EDBOR Glider Airfield Karlstadt
EDOSN Sassberg Glider Field
EDTSM Wildberg Glider Airfield
EDWEB Meidelstetten Gliderfield
ED91 Isny Glider Field
ED92 Leuzendorf Glider Field
EDGD Füssen Glider Airfield
EDHV Rote Wiese Glider Field
EDKN Neye
EDLK Egelsberg
EDLO Oerlinghausen
EDMX Oberschleissheim
EDNE Erbach
EDSD Am Kreuzberg Glider Field
EDSI Binningen
EDSK Kehl-Sundheim
EDSS Zellhausen
EDSU Steinberg in Surwold Glider Airfield
EDST Hahnweide
EDSV Waechtersberg
EDTT Tröstau Glider Field
EDTQ Pattonville
EDYE Eudenbach Glider Field
ETT1 Etting-Adelmannsberg Glider Field

Italy:
LILB Alzate Brianza Airport
LILC Calcinate Del Pesce
LILO Sondrio Caiolo Airport
LIMA Aeritalia
LIPN Boscomantico
LI8RK Esercito Italiano

Japan:
RJBD2 Nagano City
RJBET Kuju
RJBNV Menuma
RJCTO Shinshinotsu
RJCUJ Kirigamine
RJCUN Yoshiigawa Eku
RJDOP Biei
RJEER Ichishicho
RJERE Nirasaki
RJETY Hanyu
RJKND Hoshubana
RJLKO Tohma
RJMLX Fukagawa
RJMSJ Kushidagawa
RJNWE Oyama Kinu
RJPPO Kisogawa
RJPPR Makado
RJRGT Haneda
RJRPE Tsukuba
RJSEP Hamakita
RJSOR Menuma
RJSSE Sekiyado
RJSSK Makabe
RJT1 Itakura
RJXXC Kinugawa Gliding Field
RJZCD Ono

Java:
WAKIF Citerup Paraglider Airport

Luxembourg:
ELUS Useldange Glider

Namibia:
FYPO Pokweni Glider Airport

Netherlands:
EHAX Axel Glider Airfield
EHBE Maldens Vlak Glider Field
EHBI Glider Field Biddinghuizen
EHCA Glider Field Castricum
EHNO Langeveld Glider Field
EHVE Veendam Glider Site
EHVO Glider Field De Voorst
ELZC Glider Site Schinveld
EMSUI Slootdorp Glidersite
EPOMY Wieringermeer Glider Field

Philippines:
RPJST Gliders Philippines

Russia:
UMOPS Novosibirsk Glider Strip

South Africa:
FAOI Orient Glider Airport
FAOHR Kroonstad Glider Field
FAWC Worcester Glider Airport

Sweden:
ESPMY Odestugu Glider Field

Switzerland
LSGY Yverdon-Les-Bains
LSZF Birrfeld
LSZG Grenchen

Taiwan:
RCYSU Mingli

Ukraine:
UKVZ Buzova Glider Field
 
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Bomber_12th said:
I've been finding over time that there are a number of very detailed, hand-crafted small airports in MSFS 2024 which aren't present in 2020. These often have custom-made hangars (some even with signs/logos matching the flight schools located at the airfield), and many hand-placed small details not found in any of the standard default airports. All of them have some connection to gliders/soaring, but most also have a standard GA presence as well. Those I've discovered so-far in the US include:

KSYN Stanton - Minnesota

Here are screenshots to illustrate some of these - all default 2024 scenery
KSYN Stanton, Minnesota (a primary training field during WWII, still with its original 1940s combined hangar and control tower):


John (and others) - I can vouch for KSYN being "pretty darn good". (In time I will be acquiring MSFS2024, but for now it's still a no.) I have photographic evidence to prove it. I have a picture of a plane in front of the pictured gray hangars (from about 1999.2):

JRV8_2.jpg
Click to expand...

(Trivia question - Which U.S. President visited KSYN?)
 
Thank you very much for that excellent list, John! I really appreciate it. Especially as it must have been a lot of work.

So often I have no idea where to go. So this list will be a great help :)
 
John, I forgot about that also! I was thinking Bill Clinton when he visited someone at Carlton College. I was called by the KSYN FBO on a Friday afternoon in 1999 (?) and it was suggested that I not fly on Saturday. Why? Well...they couldn't say. I was later told that my plane got an impromptu inspection by the Secret Service. It seems KSYN is a popular airport with the Presidents!

(You might have missed a picture I added to your list, so you might try to expand my post.)
 
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