A recreation of the Royal Air Force and United States Air Air Force Station at Kings Cliffe, also known as "King's Cliffe" or "Kingscliffe", located between the village of King's Cliffe and the Cathedral City of Peterborough, in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Probably in use before its completion in 1941, Spitfires of various Squadrons occupied the airfield between 1941 and 1943, including a brief visit by Belgian crews, who left in August 1943 to be replaced officially by the United States Army Air Forces. Why "officially"? Because the 347th FS, 350th FG, had actually arrived in 1942 under RAF control, to work up with their P-39s before departing for North Africa.
The first USAAF unit under its own Command and Control structure, when the airfield became USAAF Station 367, was "The Wolfpack", P-47 Thunderbolts of the 56th FG, but they didn't fly operationally before leaving. At that point Kings Cliffe's primary US users, the 20th Fighter Group, arrived.
Arriving with P-38 Lighnings, the 20th switched to P-51s in mid 1944 and gained a reputation for successful attacks on locos and trains around Northern Occupied France. They flew over 300 sorties from Station 367 before the end of the war and returned slowly to the US in the form of a "draw down", rather than a single departure. Kings Cliffe was kept on under the decided mis-described "Care and Maintenance" until 1959 and much of the layout is still very clear to this very day, although modern day usage is starting to infringe.
This scenery is entirely created using objects created by myself, with MSFS materials assistance by stiz, other than the operating surfaces and default Windsocks called from the base-sim libraries. A functional runway direction "landing tee" is located on the signals square adjacent to the Watch Office and runway control caravans will also be placed next to the approach end of the active runway.
This scenery requires the IPDC Scenery Objects and Vehicles libraries version 2.0 or later, also available at this website.
Vehicles Library: https://flightsim.to/file/56849/ipdc-vehicles-library
Objects Library: https://flightsim.to/file/56846/ipdc-scenery-objects-library
Many thanks for this beautiful historic airport. Especially with the many war planes available within MSFS2020, it is very nice to have airports that are historically correct. This also applies to your beautiful IPDC WW2 "HMS Tern" Scenery. I hope you will make more WW2 airfields in the future.
2 months ago
AJSfs
I have used and liked RAF Hornchurch a lot for FSX/P3d, is there any hope of seeing it in MSFS?
Thank you
5 months ago
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Amarillon
maurizio
Thank you very much
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Amarillon
maurizio