Recreation of the historic Croydon Airport, London (Now Closed) 1930's / 1940's Representation
I created Croydon Airport some time ago for a friend who streams MSFS as she was recreating the flight in which Amy Johnson flew from Croydon to Darwin, Australia in 1930.
With the updated tools provided in the SDK it has now allowed me to remove the road traffic and road lights from the scene. Therefore I have decided to upload the project for anyone who might wish to fly the older generation of aircraft from this airfield.
ICAO: EGCO (The original ICAO was EGCR, but this was re-allocated to Ashcroft Airfield when Croydon closed in 1959.
Features:
- Three Grass runways
- Handcrafted Imperial Airways Hangars
- Handcrafted Imperial Airways Handley Page HP-42E Static Aircraft with flag
- Hancrafted Terminal Building & Control Tower
- Animated Flags
- Flashing Airport Beacon on top of the Tower
- Parking starting positions available inside the hangars
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johnwillimas
Not sure if it's a problem specific to the Sim Update 10 Beta 1.27.17.0 but I seem to have road traffic back at EGCO and what's worse it looks like its moving sideways? (Added a pic in the user gallery)
Jeppeson2001 author
Thanks for letting me know. I don't have Sim Update 10 Beta but I can confirm that the road traffic does not show & is excluded for Sim Update 9. I suspect that once Sim Update 10 is released I may have to exclude road traffic again in the SDK.
2 years ago
AviatorMan1
Thank you SO much for this. I have been waiting for this since MFS2020 came out! Cheers man.
johnwillimas
Great! Just the job for the Junkers and the Fokker VII! Any chance of doing the same for Paris Le Bourget? Some good data here: https://konbriefing.com/mad/approach-charts/fr-france/paris-le-bourget-airport.html
simoncb
I cant find it...Either as a Departure...or as an arrival? The coordinates where i arrived were a field in a housing estate. I can share the photo. Am I missing something here? Kind Regards
simoncb
can someone share its location please? I tried to find EGCO and then at the given GPS coordinates about 4 km from Kenley, but all there is is a housing estate?
2 years ago
Deepredson
So happy about this one. I love the idea of going back in time with old aircraft. There were some excellent free downloads of classic world airports for FS2004 back in the day. Great to see this.
Thank you so much!!
PaulHolmes
I was hoping for such a few weeks back and here it is! Excellent work, thank you. I've dropped a few images into the user gallery 😊 and here's a quick 5 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBp5Xl22eU Excellent backdrop for some vintage action...
DavSav
Hello, beautiful work. Goes so well with the Ju-52. There´s another Handley in the hangars. It realley brings you back. Love the tower lightning. Thanks so much.