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An add-on for Napier Airport in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand, this freeware project credits Godfrey Tier for custom buildings and a Godwit statue, with Lawrie Roache handling object placement. It uses Vector Landclass libraries and Airfield Packs, while Flight1 Software and AIRPORT FACILITATOR X aid development; redistribution is prohibited.

Nordholz v1 places the installation at Nordholz in Lower Saxony, home to Marinefliegergeschwader 3 Graf Zeppelin with IACO code ETMN. The archive ETMN_Nordholz-AB_V1.zip contains two bgl files and relies on ADE X 1.50 with stock objects and light poles supplied by Jim Dhaenens.

Located at Lunéville, France, LFQC presents photoreal ground with seasonal variants and a city-wide landclass redraw that highlights the castle and surrounding buildings. The work shows 47 custom models, an animated windsock, and static planes, with VAC and documentation, and is compatible with LFEZ_FSX.ZIP and LFSN_FSX.ZIP, by D. Bur.

Alf Denham expands three UK airfields, Bodmin EGLA, Goodwood/Chichester EGHR, and Truro EGHY, with refined hangar outlines, improved runway environs, and more developed taxiways and ramps. The project uses standard objects and relies on the Object Placement Tool and Airport Design Editor v1.26 to adjust elevation and layout.

Jim Cook delivers a Davis-Monthan AFB upgrade in Tucson, Arizona, as a detailed reinterpretation that updates taxiway and apron geometry, adds designated military parking and helipads, and replaces the fire station to reflect active-duty operations today. Files AFX_KDMA_JC.bgl and KDMA_JC.bgl accompany these changes, rely on core libraries, and require no external objects.

Orion Lyau presents a harbor enhancement for Honolulu, Hawaii, adding boats, docks, and birds to the area around the Yacht Club. The work centers on the file honolulu yatch harbor.bgl, credited to Orion Lyau, with two accompanying images showing the harbor area.

Jackson, Mississippi’s KJAN facility features a custom terminal and a dedicated C-17 hangar for the Mississippi ANG, plus air cargo areas and a central fuel-truck route. The installation relies on EZ-Scenery libraries, Runway 12 libraries, and CalClassic Core, and uses the KJAN Jackson folder with the dlf_lib_KJAN resource for object placement.

Located in southern Germany near Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden, the Baden-Sollingen AB site (EDSB) evolves from Cold War Canadian use to civilian Baden Airpark. The layout combines ADE X 1.50 and stock objects, including the tower, German shelters, Malte Deja and Wolfgang Schroeder hangars, and Jim Dhaenen's hardened shelters; two BGLs, EDSB_ADEX_US_V-1.BGL and EDSB_ADEX_US_V-1_CVX.bgl, are provided.

Kai P. Kamjunke, in collaboration with Alpha-India Group, develops Seychelles Landclass CVX, replacing the default landclass with dedicated BGLs and adding roads around Mahé and Praslin, plus objects, with components defined by AIG_Seychelles_Landclass_EXC.BGL, AIG_Seychelles_Landclass_OBJ.BGL, and AIG_Seychelles_Landclass_CVX.BGL. The Seychelles archipelago consists of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, about 1,500 kilometers east of Africa.

Chuck Bosn presents an OZx companion for the canyon region, placing a resort outside KGCN along the rim and adding hikers, campers, and river scenes. The file AZ GrandCanyon.bgl relies on default libraries and acceleration object libraries and requires Acceleration to display all elements, with placement in the Oz X Grand Canyon-KGCN folder.

By Alf Denham, Volume 18 updates several small UK airfields including Baxterley X3BX, Fowlmere EGMA, and Wolverhampton/Halfpenny Green EGBO. Based on external mapping data and airport guides, it uses real landclass objects and tree assets, with Wolverhampton_EGBO provided as a named file.
The set uses Airport Design Editor, Google Earth, and EZ-Scenery to model KCRQ McClellan Palomar Airport with parking for United Express and a faithful real-world layout, alongside KOKB Oceanside Municipal Airport, L18 Fallbrook Community Airpark (altitude not exact), L35 Big Bear City Airport, and OCA8 Ward Ranch by David Taylor, requiring EZ_1.ZIP.

In Provence, LFNH-Carpentras, an airport between Avignon and Mt. Ventoux, features a concrete runway and a grass strip used for gliders. A glider school named VELIVOLE operates there, and the annual Coupe du Ventoux race draws pilots around the Ventoux region; departures favor runway 31 due to the Mistral wind from the north.
Chios Airport (LGHI) sits on a Greek island near the coast of Turkey, where modifications update the runway, turning bays, parking areas, and facilities such as the terminal and fire department, and an additional fuel truck is added, while fire vehicles do not move.

KGRB in Wisconsin receives a complete remake with newly modeled terminals and revised aprons and taxiways, while approaches are rewritten to match the Jeppesen plate. Four BGL files appear, with crosswind activation controlled by deleting either AIG_KGRB_CW_ADEX_PF_Default.bgl and AIG_KGRB_CW_ADEX_PF_Default_CVX.bgl to disable, or the PF pair AIG_KGRB_ADEX_PF_Default.bgl and AIG_KGRB_ADEX_PF_Default_CVX.bgl to enable; credits go to Patrick Finch and Alpha India.

Jaime Ortega presents a freeware depiction of SVPR, an aviation facility in Venezuela, featuring a main terminal, control tower, a fire station, and heliports with surfaces mirroring real-world materials; jetways animate to NAV2 frequency, aligning with aircraft and returning to rest when the frequency is deactivated.

Valladier Jean Louis provides a bug fix for the Antigua TAPA layout, tied to ANTIGUA.ZIP, by JL Valladier. Antigua-1.ZIP yields two files for the addon area, then five additional files join from the same set.

Version 1 centers on two .bgl files, ETUO_RAF-Gutersloh-AB_V-1.BGL and ETUO_ADEX_US_V-1_CVX.bgl, tied to the ETUO designation for a western Germany airfield near the town of Gutersloh. Uwe Steenweg credits shelter objects from Jim Dhaenens, and ADE X 1.50 underpins the layout.

Toncontin Airport (MHTG) is an update to the original Tegucigalpa, Honduras, layout, adding two jetways and revised structures to reflect a current configuration, with life elements such as people, vehicles, and a fire station. Modifications use ADE 9x version 1.47; by Joe Garcia, the file name is MHTG_ADEX_JBG.BGL.

Episode I in a Central America series, by Gera Godoy Canova, presents four dangerous airfields in Guatemala known as the Mayan Route, with a confidential map issued by the Organization of Wreckless Bush Pilots serving as takeoff references.