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    London Biggin Hill Airport - EGKB - Image 1

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    London Biggin Hill Airport, UK - hand-crafted airport

    This has been a much requested airport and I've avoided it for a while as it looked like a lot of work. I wasn't wrong. So many taxiways, intersections, and tons of hangars and surrounding buildings to fix, this one has taken a while.
    As always, I've used airport charts to accurately reflect the correct runways and taxiways. I have not created any custom models for the hangars (yet?), so they are all stock objects.
    Enjoy it!

    Info:

    London Biggin Hill Airport (ICAO: EGKB) is an operational general aviation airport at Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley, located 12 NM south-southeast of Central London. The airport was formerly a Royal Air Force station RAF Biggin Hill, and a small enclave on the airport still retains that designation.


    Biggin Hill is best known for its role during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, when it served as one of the principal fighter bases protecting London and South East England from attack by German Luftwaffe bombers. Over the course of the war, fighters based at Biggin Hill claimed 1,400 enemy aircraft, at the cost of the lives of 453 Biggin Hill based aircrew.

     

    The airport has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P804) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Regional Airports Limited). It specialises in general aviation, handling a spectrum of traffic from private aviation to large business jets. It currently has no scheduled airline service, as flights using the airport are not permitted to carry fare-paying passengers.


    Includes:

    • Completely overhauled airport from scratch
    • Runways and taxiways based on airport charts.
    • Terraforming, vegetation and ground texture fixes
    • Custom runway and taxiway paint markings
    • Taxiway signs
    • Runway and taxiway lighting
    • PAPI (accurate glideslope angles)
    • Custom Spitfire model (thanks to DelBoy on 3dwarehouse)
    • Hundreds of hand placed stock scenery objects

    Install:

    Extract the "gobby-egkb-bigginhill" folder to your /Community/ folder.

    Notes:
    · I couldn't find many photos/videos showing taxiway signs, so there may be some missing and/or innacurate. The important "hold short" ones should be correct.
    · Parking number order is a mess when selecting in-game. No idea how to fix this.
    · Approach lights are the closest I could find and are not 100% accurate.

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    over 1 year ago

    GREAT WORK

    over 2 years ago

    Don't create mods if you're just gonna disappoint us by NOT updating it

    about 2 years ago

    You'd prefer nothing?

    over 2 years ago

    Unfortunately, your parking positions are not transferred to the sim. For this beautiful airport could you please correct this issue?

    about 3 years ago

    Looks good.

    about 4 years ago

    Hello, Chap hope your well,


    Are there Any Updates coming to Biggin anytime soon? I am a streamer on twitch and youtube that I do a show called Big Spit tv and I would like to bring her home from Duxford to Biggin. so was wondering if you were going to improve it or add any custom models etc?


    Regards CptSpitfire

    over 4 years ago

    Any chance of getting the exisiting ATC to work here?

    over 4 years ago

    Thanks very much for this excellent work.

    Is it possible to fix the elevation error in front of the hangar north of the control tower please? Also questioning the white slopy thing at the north end of the control tower building?

    over 4 years ago

    is this compatible with SU5?

    almost 5 years ago

    Thanks for this. Biggin Hill means a lot to me. Two very significant events that shaped my life occurred there.

    Please can you take an axe to the duplicate windsocks that have appeared since the MSFS UK update.

    TIA

    about 5 years ago

    Hi - anything we can do about the duplicate windsocks pls?

    over 5 years ago

    For further information:
    Bernie Ecclestone's FOA bought the RAF site on the Western perimeter. This housed his TV Production business. Other buildings along the South housed other F1 businesses. His BAE146 was based here. He owned a Hangar which when open, you could see a stacking system on the side walls which housed all types of F1 cars (Parmalat).
    https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AK3KXN/british-aerospace-bae-146-100-g-ofoa-belonging-to-bernie-ecclestone-AK3KXN.jpg

    over 5 years ago

    Flew many times out of Biggin. Mostly from the school apron in the South. Taxing across the 29 junction for taxiway Alpha in your image above. This was done very gingerly ensuring that you crossed the taxiway/runway joint at 45* to ensure the wheels didn't drop into the rut in unison. Very likely prop strike if you did..
    Looks great and thanks for your hard work.
    EGLF Farnborough next? I have numerous elements

    over 5 years ago

    Great work on "Biggin on the bump" it's been a while since I've seen a decent version of this.

    over 5 years ago

    Not sure if a bug or not, but cant see ILS frequencies if I use the airport info in the TBM for instance...
    GobbyAuthor

    over 5 years ago

    I've not included any changes to ILS and frequencies in this release, so they are probably missing in the base game.

    about 5 years ago

    Was just about to comment about this. I guess they are missing from default then as the CJ 4 can't see any. Would be amazing if you found a way to add them.

    over 5 years ago

    Amazing thank you - just redhill EGKR now

    over 5 years ago

    At last a proper Biggin Hill. My local airport and where I spent many many thousands of pounds flying there from 1997 to 2012. Wish Joe's bar was still there!

    over 5 years ago

    Awesome work, people are getting closer to Redhill :D
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    London Biggin Hill Airport - EGKB

    Experience the hand-crafted London Biggin Hill Airport (EGKB) in the UK, meticulously recreated with accurate runways, taxiways, and terraforming. This add-on features custom runway markings, taxiway signs, lighting, and even PAPI for precise glideslope angles. Immerse yourself in the history of this former RAF station, known for its significant role during the Battle of Britain in World War II.

    Downloads7K
    Version1.1
    File Size5.78 MB
    Published5 years ago
    Updated5 years ago

    User Reviews

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    MSFS2020
    CategoryAirports
    Sub-CategoryIntl. Airports
    ICAOEGKB

    Version History

    Fixed runway start positions

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