Duxford, UK - Home to the Imperial War Museum and the Duxford Air Festival

I have recrafted this airport from scratch and tried to match the real-world features as closely as possible. I have created custom models for some of the larger hangars, and used (lots) of base objects to complete the airfield.
I hope you enjoy it!

Info:

Duxford Aerodrome (ICAO: EGSU) is located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south of Cambridge, within the Parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly 1-mile (1.6 km) west of the village.

The airfield is owned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and is the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American Air Museum.

Duxford Aerodrome has a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Ordinary Licence (Number P678) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Cambridgeshire County Council). The aerodrome is not licensed for night use.

Includes:

Completely overhauled airport from scratch
Runways with custom markings
Taxiways and signs
Apron markings
West and East parking (you can choose via ATC)
Air Space hangar - custom model
American War Museum - custom model
Control Tower - custom model
Land Warfare Hall - custom model
3 main hangars - custom model
Over 200 other hand placed scenery objects
Terraformed M11 and grass bank
Added ground ATC

Install:

Extract the "gobby-duxford" folder to your /Community/ folder.

Known 'limitations':

I have not included any of the external museum aircraft, weapons and tanks (sorry I don't have time to model them all!) I have replaced the British airliners collection with some a320s to give a similar look from the air.
I replaced the flight simulator truck with a stock blue (american) truck as it was the closest scenery available.
The 3 'green' hangars use the same model, even though there are subtle differences in real-life.
I have not added any night lighting as the real aerodrome is not used at night.
Lots of buildings towards the front are not accurate to real-life as they are stock objects.

thanks a lot for this great scenery, I know very well Duxford and I'm imrpessive by the I am impressed by the precision of the main and iconic hangars.
there is only one thing missing, the mound of the side of the Land Warfare Hall well knowned by the spoters during the shows
I'm getting also stuttering when flying close to Duxford now. Do you have an idea to solve this issue ?

3 years ago

Franck66

Having lived near Duxford for many years it is really nice to see this excellent recreation of this iconic airfield (and now a museum). I agree with a previous comment that the A320s' lovely planes that they are) must go. I think there is an issue with the ground handling and runway. I have become adept at taking off and landing the new Spitfire which takes a lot of practice but here I find it almost impossible to control both take off and landing and when taxiing, the plane is slightly tilted like it has a puncture. I'm sure at this location this is an MSFS problem. Thanks for this airport though!

alanrco

Thanks for all your hard work in creating this - very nicely done!

Incidentally.... maybe it's just something on my system, but I'm getting terrible stuttering when flying close to Duxford now, since World Update 3.

Flak

Gorgeous work!

ChrisJSetterington

You Sir are a legend, not quite a flying legend but near enough! I actually fly out of DUX and have been looking for a better version. so happy. just need some old school warbirds to buzz around in and happy place! left hand circuits on 24R here I come, couldn't sort out MJ's place over at EGMJ grass needs cutting again and those pesky trees popping up 😉

ukflipside

Excellent contribution of the long-awaited Duxford scenary! ... in Flightsim.to you have the LFFQ scenary made by Toto33120, with a collection of planes, both from WWI and WWII. Inside the file is his Readme which gives directions to get them .... I hope you can contact him and for the next upgrade we can see them in your excellent setting.

Tarval

Love this. Only problem is that the static aircraft seem to bop up & down on uneven terrain or something. Only seems to happen when taxiing.

d25bev

Really good, except for the a320 please replace and put in some 70s static airliner's if possible to make this a 5 star project.

kerbgrinder

Brilliant work, appreciate the effort.

chopsueystuey

Excellent scenery of a legendary airfield! Perhaps North Weald next which has long been overlooked!

pmacb

Big Thanks! - great to see such a good version of Duxford finally in game, was a favourite place for me when I lived down in the area.

Sprool

Very very nice. Thank you.
Would it maybe be possible to import visual models from some FSX freeware aircraft for the static aircraft? Hawker Hurricane, F-15 Eagle, Vickers Viscount and Bristol Brittania are all available as freeware FSX planes at www.flightsim.com
Also many of the jet airliners on the tarmac have aft-mounted engines and thus more resemble the Embraer CRJ 700 than the A320.

Archer374

There's a much better version of Duxford now available at https://flightsim.to/file/21755/duxford-airfield-egsu

2 years ago

Hey thanks Gobby, I had your Duxford as soon as it came out and was well pleased to see something better than the ugly default, but as an avid Duxford fan I had to recreate something with more details and the lockdowns gave me the time to do it.

Thanks for head ups link here and best wishes for all your current and future sceneries.

Regards

Mick

ChicoMick

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Gobby

Hi is this now compatible with update 5 please

Yes - nobody has reported any issues

Paul_J

Airfield looks great, thank you. Next thing is to get a warbird.

I recommend the MK IX from you know who...

Mokumkat

whiskymike

Outstanding scenery, I love to fly from it. Since World Update 3, though, I notice the ground is very sticky on taxi, it takes a lot of throttle to get going. That plus the bopping up and down static aircraft makes me think there is a conflict in the elevation data, so either the stock scenery or this addon makes the plane think it is under ground? Hope this can be fixed in an update, but I still love it even with the glitch.

Yep Asobo still haven't fixed the simobjects hopping up and down bug. I've not encountered the 'sticky taxi' issue. The taxiways are just the default asphalt and grass so shouldn't be causing any issues.

K5083

hi there
great job on this Elstree (EGWU) any chance of doing RAF Northolt (EGWU)
Many thx

speedbird911

This scenery looks fantastic and I have installed the latest version, but unfortunately I am getting poor frame rates! I have tried the Biggin Hill scenery but that is fine.

I wouldn't knock him down a star for the statics. Doing 70s aircraft I think is a bit out of the scope of this project.

LegibleSphere

Hi I am really enjoying flying from this famous airfield, but I notice that when I initially load the scenery from the world map it stutters for a while before stabilising. This doesn't happen when start at other airports including payware. Has anyone else reported this?

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