FlightSimExpo, the largest annual gathering dedicated entirely to home flight simulation, has confirmed that its 2027 edition will return to Las Vegas, Nevada. The announcement was made by Evan Reiter, co-founder of the Flight Simulation Association, during the closing session of FlightSimExpo 2026 at the Saint Paul River Centre in Minnesota. For an event that has spent the better part of a decade rotating through cities across the United States, the move back to Vegas carries a certain symbolic weight: It's the city where the whole concept began.
FlightSimExpo 2027 is scheduled for June 11-13, 2027, and will be held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, located just off the Strip. Attendees who book through the official room block will have access to a $169-per-night rate, and unlike the past two editions, the convention space and hotel accommodations will once again sit under the same roof, something the organizers have flagged as a meaningful improvement to the overall on-site experience.
A Show Built on Moving Targets
Since launching in 2018, FlightSimExpo has never settled in one place for long. The first event took place in Las Vegas, and over the following years the show toured through Orlando, San Diego, and Houston before circling back to Las Vegas in 2024, that time at the Rio Las Vegas hotel after an initial venue arrangement fell through. From there, the expo moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 2025 and most recently to Saint Paul, Minnesota for the 2026 edition, which wrapped up its run just before this announcement.
That itinerant approach has been deliberate. Organizers have generally tied location decisions to attendee feedback, cost considerations, and venue availability, treating the show's home as something to be earned each year rather than fixed. According to organizers, Las Vegas had actually been written off as a realistic option for some time, with Reiter indicating that the team had more or less concluded the city's pricing had priced it out of contention for future events. A new agreement with the Westgate appears to have changed that calculation, making a return to Sin City viable again for 2027.
Why the Westgate
The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino brings its own slice of history to the table. Originally opened in 1969 as the International Hotel, the property later operated for decades as the Las Vegas Hilton and is best known for its long association with Elvis Presley, who performed hundreds of shows there during the 1970s. For FlightSimExpo's purposes, the more relevant detail is practical rather than historical: the Westgate sits on an on-site monorail station connected to the broader Strip corridor, and a Vegas Loop tunnel station on the property offers a direct route to the airport, addressing two of the more common attendee complaints about past Vegas-based editions, namely getting around the city and reaching the venue itself.
Closing Out FSExpo 2026
The Las Vegas announcement served as the final piece of news at the close of FlightSimExpo 2026, which also saw the presentation of this year's Attendee Choice Awards. SayIntentions.AI took home Best Announcement honors, while Grinnelli Designs was recognized for Best Exhibit Booth, a presentation that reportedly included a hovering blimp and a smoke machine alongside hardware demonstrations from WINCTRL and Next Level Racing. For those who weren't able to attend in person, the full slate of 2026 seminar recordings remains available through August 31 via a one-time $15 online pass at flightsimexpo.com/watch, and the organizers are running a post-event debrief webinar on June 28.
For now, the date to keep in mind is June 11-13, 2027, at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. Further details on registration, exhibitor lists, and programming are expected to follow in the coming months through the usual flight sim news outlets, including Flightsim.to.