Wilmington Airport (ICAO: KILG) (formerly known as New Castle County Airport),  is located in New Castle County, Delaware.

The facility is five miles (8 km) south of Wilmington and approximately 30 miles (50 km) south of Philadelphia.  Avelo Airlines began regular service at KILG in February of 2023.

The Innaugural flight (Flight XP559), was from KILG to KMCO (Orlando International Airport) and featured a Boeing 737-7H4,  Registration N701VL.   Avelo founder, chairman, and ceo, Andrew Levy, accompanied the passengers on that innaugural flight.

N701VL for the PMDG 737-700, by "Krake802"   https://flightsim.to/file/33360/avelo-n701vl-8k

This project contains custom PBR textured models created specifically for this project by Mamu82.  These models include the main terminal,  the control tower,  the main National Guard C130 Hangar,  Delaware Air National Guard Fire Dept Sta. 33,  the Atlantic Aviation FBO,  the Fly Advanced FBO,  the Flight Safety International facility,  and the corporate hangars located next to the tower.  

This project also includes multiple freeware and payware models by authors credited later in this document.    

This project makes use of 4 publicly available freeware model libraries.   If you chose to forgo them,  you won't see those particular features such as animated humans, some light sources,  small objects like vending machines,  etc.

"Animated Human 3d Models Library" by SuperSpud,  https://flightsim.to/file/33166/animated-humans-library
"EDHK Lights & Objects Developers Pack (Asset-Pack)" by MrMo,  https://flightsim.to/file/2549/edhk-lights-pack
"Dave's Higher-Res Crooked Library" by BadMed,  https://flightsim.to/file/15769/dave-s-higher-res-crooked-library
"Emerald Object Library" by RotorNut44,    https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library

Included with this airport is a folder named "KILG-TreeFix",  this mod file is composed of terraforming polygons that fix the blocky photogrametry trees around the airport (and a large portion of New Castle County Delaware).   

This airport includes a GSX Pro profile named "KILG-GSXPRO.ini".  GSX Pro users should place this file in %APPDATA%\Virtuali\GSX\MSFS.  

Enter "%APPDATA%\Virtuali\GSX\MSFS" in a windows search box to locate the directory.    Users without GSX can just delete the profile.

Some of areas of this project and some of the buildings are considered place holders.  For example,  the "Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center" will likely be modeled.   IRL it's used to train Army helo crews.

P.S.
Things to look for while you're visiting KILG.   Thanks to Mamu82,  a tractor cuts the grass near the terminal every morning from 6:20am to 10am.   Also the Airport Speedway is just 2000ft west of KILG (on your left as you depart RW 1),  and Mamu has animated the Midget sprint car races.   

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KILG History

Construction began on what was Delaware's First Public airport in 1941, the Greater Wilmington Airport. 

The airport was taken over by the United States Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack in December.

In 1942 the Army leased the airport for one dollar a year,  and renamed it the "New Castle Army Air Base". 

The Army hastily built seventy-nine buildings in ninety days, 300 in a year. The base housed 5,000 personnel. From here, bombers and fighters came and went from Europe, and C-54 Skymasters ferried supplies to India. Little, if anything, survives of the wartime facilities. A control tower and terminal were built postwar (1954–1956, W. Ellis Preston). The terminal has lost some of its original touches, but retains colored terrazzo floors and plate-glass windows. Nationwide, few terminals of this vintage survive intact.

The base fascilitated the movement of aircraft to the British and other Allies. Members of the historic Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) served as test and ferry pilots and towed targets for student gunners. There is a statue today at the airport that honors the women of the WASP who served their country in the time of need.

After the war ended, control of the airport was returned to civil authorities. A joint-use agreement was made between the United States Air Force and New Castle County authorities for a portion of the airport being retained for an Air National Guard Base. Trans World Airlines (TWA) operated a large overhaul base for its overseas planes at the airport until 1957 when the airline moved it to the Kansas City Overhaul Base which became the basis for today's Kansas City International Airport.

Delaware's first airline flights were operated by TWA and American Airlines at Wilmington in late 1947.

By 1967, Eastern Airlines was operating Douglas DC-9 jet service into the airport with nonstops to New York Newark Airport, Philadelphia Airport, and Washington D.C. National Airport as well as direct flights to Atlanta and Charlotte.[8]

Allegheny Airlines also served Wilmington. In 1968, AL had four daily departures using their F-27s nonstop to Philadelphia, Washington's National Airport, Atlantic City, and Trenton. In 1969, Allegheny no longer flew F-27s and changed the four departures to Convair 580 prop-jets with two to DCA, one to PHL, and one to ACY.[9]

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Airport_(Delaware)    and,     https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-NC4

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This project includes payware and freeware 3d models by the following artists,  all of which were downloaded from either Sketchfab or CG Trader.

USERNAME,  "Model Name"

Helijah,  "Beechcraft C18,  Bell Twin Huey, Boeing 247D, Curtis JN4,  DC-3,  Diamond DA40,  Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, Draco Wilga,  F-86 Saber "Gate Guard",  North American T-28 Trojan,  Pilatus PC-12,  TBM 930"

Terminal-NJ,  "P-51 (Low Poly)"

Stecki,  "70 Chevelle SS,  2005 Mustang GT,  2206 Charger SRT/8"

Alex. KA.,  "1995 Ferrari F50,  1969 Charger Daytona"

ROH3D,    "2018 Chevy Trailboss Crew Cab"

TSB3DMODELS,  "Ford Ranger POLICE"

Steven Mai,  "Components of Crane"  (Grove RT530E)

Some Bloke,   "Tardis 2020"

Studio Labs,  "Road Barrier (Toll gate)

Rescue3d Assets,  "Fire Truck,  Ambulance Vehicle"

Miguel Bandera,    "Senor Motorcycle Bike -Photogrametry Scan"

Lowmod,   "Indian FTR 1200"

Sidra,   "H135 Airbus Helicopter"

Netrunner75,  "71 Plymouth Barracuda,  63 Corvette Split Window, Porche 911"

attben,  "Boeing 717-200,  ATR-72"

tivsol,  "Airport Hangar 1 UEEE"

Windhover,  "Open Hangar Library"  (excellent freeware)

Snowdrop-2018,  "Petrol Station (Shell),  Airport Hangar,   Airport Warehouse Hangar,  Burgerking and McDonalds".

wulfgar,   "Shell Sign Fuel Serivce Station"

Polycube Studios,  "Commerical Building-026 Comfort Inn and Suites Hotel".

3dArcMaster,   "Urban City Building 4,  Urban City Building 12"

Rahul Kumar Dey,  "Garage asset Welding Kit,fire extinguisher"

sonalbhagora,  "Tractor Free 3d Model"  (John Deere)

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Don't miss these incredible freeware mods by Mamu82!  
Powerlines and  Solar Farms,     https://flightsim.to/file/26186/powerlines-and-solar-farms
Marinas,                 https://flightsim.to/file/38499/mamudesign-marinas
Project Lifts - Chairlifts, Gondolas and Cablecars of the entire world,  https://flightsim.to/file/14840/project-litfts-europe
Also make sure to check out his series of freeware Italian airfields,   which have features like animated hangar doors,  tractors, trains,  etc.

Congratulations to Puffin Flight for achieving global coverage with his "WeLoveVFR" project. 

https://flightsim.to/file/2605/we-love-vfr-region-1
https://flightsim.to/file/16674/we-love-vfr-region-2
https://flightsim.to/file/52211/we-love-vfr-region-3
https://flightsim.to/file/24818/we-love-vfr-xtra-fireworks

Shout out to Henrick "KL791" Nielsen for surpassing a decade with his global shipping mod!

Special thanks for RotorNut44 of Emerald Scenery Design,  for graciously permitting freeware developers to utilize objects from his scenery library.  https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library     Don't miss his FA08, Kermit Week's "Fantasy of Flight". https://flightsim.to/file/16471/fantasy-of-flight-fa08

Shout out to all MSFS developers, of all shapes and sizes.   Too many talented people to list in one document,  each a credit to the MSFS community.

If you're into racing,   be sure to check out Robi's "Old Bridge Flight School 3N6, Englishtown, NJ USA" https://flightsim.to/file/44605/old-bridge-flight-school-airport-3n6

 

 

 

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KILG - Wilmington Airport

Wilmington Airport (ICAO: KILG) (formerly known as New Castle County Airport), is located in New Castle County, Delaware. Five miles (8 km) south of Wilmington and approximately 30 miles (50 km) south of Philadelphia. Construction began on what was Delaware's First Public airport in 1941, the Greater Wilmington Airport. After the Pearl Habor attack in December of 41, the facility was taken over by the United States Army Air Force. In 1942 it was leased by the Army for a dollar a year and renamed, "New Castle Army Air Base". Avelo Airlines began regular service at KILG in February of 2023.

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