North Weald Airfield

Nestled in Essex, North Weald Airfield has a rich aviation history that dates back to 1916, originally serving as a Royal Flying Corps base during World War I. The airfield played a significant role in both World Wars, becoming a key site for fighter aircraft operations during World War II.

After the war, North Weald transitioned to civilian use in the 1960s and became a popular destination for private pilots and flight training, fostering a vibrant community of aviation enthusiasts.

Today, North Weald Airfield is a thriving general aviation hub, hosting a variety of flight schools and private aircraft operations. It is home to the National Police Air Service (NPAS) and the Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulance (EHAA), providing critical support for emergency response operations. The airfield features multiple cafés, aircraft maintenance services, and a vintage aircraft restoration company. Additionally, North Weald hosts events and airshows, drawing visitors from near and far to celebrate its storied legacy in aviation.

North Weald Airfield has been painstakingly recreated by Burning Blue Design undertaking on-site visits. We have also collaborated with actual pilots of North Weald to ensure the highest levels of accuracy. It features:

• Over 200 custom 3D objects each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) textures.
• Accurate runways, taxiways and custom taxi signs.
• Night lighting includes accurate runway, taxiway, EHAA apron and NPAS hangar lighting.
• Detailed hangar interiors, offering 2 open hangars to start your flight from, each with animated hangar doors which close at night (open manually with Taxi Lights):
• Dynamic Air Ambulance static model, which is only visible Monday – Friday, allowing you to use the EHAA Helipad at weekends.
• Completely custom windsock and dynamic animated flags
• Animated spectators
• Real-life static aircraft often seen at North Weald:
  • (3x) Douglas C-47 Skytrain (“Aces High”, “Drag em oot” and “Pegasus”)
  • Douglas C-54 Skymaster (“Atlantic Division”)
  • Cessna 172N (North Weald Aviation: G-NWFC, G-NWFS and G-NWFT)
  • Cessna A150 (G-LALA)
  • Piper PA-28 Warrior (Academy Aviation: G-CMFJ)
  • Eurocopter EC 135T2 (NPAS: G-POLD)
  • Agusta-Westland AW-169 (EHAA: G-HHEM)
  • de Havilland Tiger Moth (Aero Legends)
  • Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXT (Aero Legends: “Elizabeth”)
• Full dynamic weather compatibility
• Enhanced high resolution colour corrected ground textures
• Modelled POI Church Langley Water Tower (3NM North of EGSX)

Once you have purchased and downloaded the product, double click on the zip file to open it. You should see the airport’s folder inside, this will need to be extracted and placed into your Microsoft Flight Simulator Community folder, if you don’t know where the community folder is, we have a full guide on how to install our packages here.

If you still have trouble locating your community folder this easy to follow video will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhSkMzWLFR0

There is also a community tool called ModmanFX which makes installing and removing Microsoft Flight Simulator packages incredibly easy, you can get it here: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/modmanfx

• A large section of the M11 adjacent to North Weald does not appear to spawn road traffic correctly. This is not something we can fix within the tools provided to us.
• Since World Update 17, we have noticed an increase in ‘bumpiness’ in the ground terrain. Hopefully this is rectified by Asobo shortly.
• Transparent and translucent glass panes can appear very dark when subject to particle effects such as rain, snow and fog. This is a known bug that Asobo/Microsoft are aware of and will hopefully fix in the near future.

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Further Information and Licensing:

A number of the static vehicles used within the scenery were 3D models used under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The models were reskinned to match their real life contemporaries. For further information and full attribution on any of the individual models please contact us here: https://burningbluedesign.com/contact/

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