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Lehigh Valley International Airport (IATA: ABE, ICAO: KABE, FAA LID: ABE) (formerly Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton International Airport) is a domestic airport in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Parts are in Catasauqua and Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Allentown, and two miles (3.2 km) northwest of Bethlehem, in the Lehigh Valley area. It is the fourth busiest airport in the state, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg.
Passenger traffic has experienced 26 consecutive months of steady growth as of November 2019, and the total passenger count for January through November 2019 has already eclipsed 2018's passenger totals for that entire year. Much of this growth has been driven by Allegiant Airlines' new base, providing low-cost flights to multiple leisure destinations. It is becoming popular for the transportation of air cargo due to growth of e-commerce and close proximity to major population centers on the East Coast. As of 2016, it ships more than 126 million pounds of cargo annually with growth of nearly 166% in cargo tonnage shipped between 2015 and 2016. Companies such as Amazon.com are using the airport, a major factor in its growth.
Current Fixes:
- Custom terraforming
- Added airport lighting
- Updated Terminal Area
- Updated Cargo Area
- Fixed Runway Configurations
- Fixed Taxiway Designators to be accurate to FAA airport diagram
- Fixed Taxiway Lighting
- Added ILS and G/S antennas
- Added fire station
- Updated hangars across airport to be more realistic using default SDK objects
- Replaced default windsocks with Windy Things lighted windsocks
- Other scenery updates
Let me know if you find any issues or have suggestions. Happy Flying!
Created using MSFS Toolkit by Nool Aerosystems (https://msfs.nool.ee/)
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KABE - Lehigh Valley International Airport
Experience the revamped KABE - Lehigh Valley International Airport with custom terraforming, updated terminals, and accurate runway configurations. Explore the fourth busiest airport in Pennsylvania, known for its cargo shipping growth and low-cost leisure destinations. Created using MSFS Toolkit for a realistic flying experience. Happy Flying!
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Small fixes for CU9
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Great to have this airport and hopefully perhaps and update sometime!
almost 2 years ago
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almost 3 years ago
Just installed this into my community folder 6-13-23... The Jet Bridges are all disconnected at the joints... Is this an issue you're aware of? The example images do not have this issue... Overall looks good...
over 3 years ago
Can you do an update for the airport? In real life, they updated some of the taxiway lettering/numbering. And this is an excellent addon compared to the payware, in my opinion.
over 3 years ago
Thank you for the kind words and letting me know. I'll actually look at it this afternoon.
over 3 years ago
There is also another payware KABE in the marketplace presently. While the buildings seem more accurate in the payware version, I still uninstalled it. Why? Because the runway lightings are inaccurate while this freeware version still has the (more generic) buildings in the right places, the runway lighting and landing lights are correct, and its free. I messaged the payware author and still so far no updates. They also made KAVP but I am avoiding that purchase until that same author has commitment to make the updates to KABE (and this author made that airport too!). This is a flight sim, I see more of the runways than the buildings, another reason why I prefer this mod over the payware presently. Great job and hopefully we can see continued updates to my home airport!
over 3 years ago
Thank you, I couldn't agree more! With either payware or freeware developers, focus on getting the aviation features done correctly before anything else.
about 4 years ago
Thank you!
about 4 years ago
Hi!
User Windhover recently released a pack of open hangars that would not be required as a dependency on flightsim.to. Could you look into maybe adding some of these?
about 4 years ago
thanks for the heads up, yeah I'll definitely start looking at using this at my airports
over 4 years ago
Appreciate you taking the time to do this addition. Lived in PA all my life, and excited to see all of the PA related content lately
over 4 years ago
FAT MAC!
over 4 years ago
I'm not fat. I'm cultivating mass. :-)
over 4 years ago
This took more time that most to download. When I looked at the size of the .zip file I was astounded. Are you not able to find some additional efficiency? Is is 8K or something like that?