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Grumman Widgeon VC with radial engines

An exceptionally rare Radial Widgeon VC uses 450hp P&W R-985 engines on a light airframe for consistently strong performance, with careful cooling considerations. The exterior model weighs just under 18,000 polygons and includes night lighting and XML gauges.

: 6.96 MB
: 5K
: 4/5

Complete with Base Model

Amelia Earhart's L-10E Electra

Two custom panels present this L-10E Electra, a classic Sperry AP version and a modern digital AP option with enhanced navigation equipment. Smithsonian research by Dave Bitzer and Alex Nicolson informs over two dozen flight-dynamics changes, including proper-capacity long-range tanks; Cambridge Engine Analyzer, Sextant, Drift Meter, and pop-up E6-B remain standard on both panels.

: 9.88 MB
: 2.8K
: 4/5
: 3

Complete with Base Model

MATS Super Constellation

Kalyan Mukherjee and Mike Stone author the VQ-1 Super Constellation (no tank) variant, documenting its presence in the archive. A Con_gauges.zip file accompanies the archive and targets the gauges folder for content, ensuring compatibility with resources.

: 8.47 MB
: 2.4K
: 4/5
: 1

Complete with Base Model

Bristol Bulldog IIA

The Bristol Bulldog is released as freeware, presenting a complete aircraft. Panel work by Eliezer Rice accompanies the project, while the flight dynamics receive some refinement as part of the enhancements and the overall offering.

: 2.37 MB
: 1.8K
: 5

Special Effects For Default DC-3

By Jan Rosenberg, this DC-3 enhancement implements startup smoke, contrails, and a 14-inch-wide tire mark for use on each aircraft via the aircraft.cfg's [EFFECTS] section. Contrail formation temperature is configurable in aircraft.cfg, and it also fixes wrong prop rotation while adding scrape points for belly landings.

: 65.3 KB
: 1.7K
: 1/5

Complete with Base Model

FS2002/FS2004 Curtiss SOC-3

The Seagull enters service in 1935 and remains active well into World War II. It is configured for the red section leader of VO-3 aboard the battleship Idaho, featuring moving parts, transparent windows, and an accurate canopy slide.

: 827.46 KB
: 1.7K
: 1

Complete with Base Model

Spartan Executive

Two variants of the Spartan Executive 7W offer VC and no-VC configurations, powered by a Gmax airframe with a hand-flyer flight model. It presents a custom era correct panel and easy-to-read virtual cockpit, photoreal-influenced exterior finishes and gauges, a matching interior, VC gauge backlighting, specular highlights in the VC, and an HTML reference.

: 16.08 MB
: 1.7K
: 4/5

Complete with Base Model

Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat

The Short S.23 variant serves as FS2004's original short-range model, carrying fuselage markings for Imperial Airways and Qantas, and representing the mid-1930s to World War II era. An accompanying image file named s23_v10-tn.gif provides a visual reference.

: 3.81 MB
: 1.7K
: 3

Complete with Base Model

Sikorsky S-38 Pan Am

The Sikorsky S-38 operated by Pan American Airways carries registration NC-144M, one of 38 S-38s operated by Pan American or its subsidiaries. Caribbean routes run from Miami to Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Central America, while the airframe features animated gear and cabin/cargo hatches, plus optional engine cowlings.

: 2.84 MB
: 1.4K
: 5/5
: 2

Complete with Base Model

Handley Page HP-50

The Heyford, RAF's last biplane bomber, is represented with moving parts, a pilot figure, Nav. lights, and a retracting dustbin bottom gun turret. A vintage panel uses default gauges for a period-accurate cockpit interior today.

: 276.55 KB
: 1.4K
: 1

Complete with Base Model

Short S.17 Kent

This four-engined British flying boat airliner from 1931 embodies Imperial Airways' Scipio class named after the first aircraft, G-ABFA 'Scipio'. It remains ready to operate from Brindisi, Athens or Alexandria harbours.

: 3.03 MB
: 1.4K
: 4/5
: 2

Complete with Base Model

Levasseur PL8 of Nungesser and Coli version 1.23

A PL8 variant derived from the PL4 widens the fuselage to carry three tanks for a 4025-liter fuel capacity, enabling long-range crossings, engine tests extend 43 hours in Chartres, gear mirrors the real unit from the aeronautical museum, and navigation uses a sextant with star.dat containing 4900 stars plus an autopilot navigator by Scott.

: 5.14 MB
: 1.3K

FS2002/FS2004 Classic Ryan STA

Two variants of the Ryan STA are offered, featuring wheeled and float configurations, and the aircraft is a low-wing monoplane with a metal fuselage, fabric-covered wooden wing spars, and two tandem cockpits. The Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego, California manufactures it, and Custom Classics credits Lynn and Bill Lyons.

: 10.53 MB
: 1.3K

Complete with Base Model

Silver Hughes H1 Racer

Tim Piglet Conrad’s H1 Racer gains a corrected Alpha Channel to better resemble the original and an adjusted wing N-number to match. The original readme file accompanies the files, and Images by Mark Rooks accompany them.

: 1.8 MB
: 1.2K
: 3/5
: 4

Complete with Base Model

Royal Danish Air Force Catalina

It depicts the L-866 in mid-1960s day-glow markings, representing a RDAF aircraft that operated from 1957 to 1970. Today it sits on display at the RAF Museum Cosford, preserving the era's context for visitors and researchers.

: 1.35 MB
: 1.2K
: 3/5
: 3

Complete with Base Model

CFS2/FS2002/FS2004 FMA/Curtiss Hawk 75-O

FMA builds the Hawk 75-O under licence for the Argentine air force, with fixed gear, four Madsen machine guns, and a reflective multimdl presentation. Ignacio Alfredo Mendive handles the modeling and painting for the Hawk 75-O representation.

: 1.09 MB
: 1.1K
: 5/5
: 2

Complete with Base Model

Flying Flea

The Mignet HM14 Flying Flea model offers full moving parts, including undercarriage suspension, fuel gauge, compass, and control surfaces with reflective textures. The design originates in the 1930s and is not intended as an exact replica.

: 1.52 MB
: 1.1K
: 4/5
: 1

Gee Bee Model Z Supersports

Designed by Bob Hall and built by Granville Brothers Aircraft Inc., the Z variant carries the City of Springfield name and is noted for winning the 1931 Thompson Trophy Dash. It uses FSDS2.4 with animations and clickable gauges, levers and switches, offers a 2D and VC cockpit, and includes sound files.

: 10.05 MB
: 1K
: 5/5
: 1

Douglas DC-3 Air Viet Nam XV-NIA Textures

The work centers on a DC-3 variant registered XV-NIA and is provided as DC3AV04.ZIP, based on Mark Beaumont’s DC3PAINT.ZIP. Tuan Ngo-Anh paints using Mel Lawrence’s 1961 photographs, and bonus flight plans covering routes once flown by XV-NIA are included.

: 1.2 MB
: 1K
: 4

Douglas DC-3 Repaint Templates

Creator Mark Beaumont supplies two 24-bit templates to customize the DC-3, featuring bare-metal and white-top finishes in distinct options, revised alpha channel templates included, and the set can be used as-is to add to or replace standard markings; file name DC3PAINT.ZIP.

: 6.27 MB
: 928
: 9