Old Buckenham Aerodrome

Old Buckenham Aerodrome served as a U.S. Army Air Forces base during World War II and was home to the 453rd Bombardment Group. Located near Attleborough in Norfolk, England, it provided a strategic base for bomber missions over occupied Europe due to its proximity to the east coast and continental targets.

Today, the aerodrome houses two museums dedicated to preserving its wartime legacy. The 453rd Bombardment Group Museum contains the largest collection of memorabilia from the group, which operated B-24 Liberators from the airfield during World War II. The museum also features the 8th Air Force Heritage Gallery, sharing personal stories of U.S. servicemen and women stationed in East Anglia during the war .​

Old Buckenham is at the forefront of sustainable aviation in the UK. It hosts the country’s first electric aircraft charging point, powered entirely by solar energy, making it the fourth such facility globally. 

Old Buckenham Aerodrome has been painstakingly recreated by Burning Blue Design undertaking on-site visits to ensure the highest levels of accuracy. It features:

• Over 100 custom 3D objects each with full Physical Based Rendering (PBR) textures.
• Accurate runways, taxiways and custom taxi signs.
• Detailed hangar interior with animated hangar doors which close at night (open manually with Taxi Lights)
• Accurate Café interior (Open Wednesday to Sunday – 9am to 4pm)
• Completely custom windsock and dynamic animated flags
• Animated spectators
• Full dynamic weather compatibility
• Enhanced high resolution colour corrected ground textures
• Native support for both MSFS 2020 and 2024

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

• 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/

Creative Commons License