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Hawk's Wildcat

Robert Hawk's Grumman Wildcat, modified by Mark Rooks of RDG Aircraft, ships as GrummanWildcat.zip containing six files for the aircraft folder, with gauge files in the gauges directory. The carrier-based fighter records a top speed of 318 mph.

: 18.24 MB
: 1.5K
: 5/5
: 1

Complete with Base Model

SP2 Waco UPF-7

Tim Conrad presents a rebuilt UPF-7, updating the virtual cockpit with more 3-D switches, levers, and reflective gauges. Textures resize to 2048x2048, and the model is built using SP-2 SDK, with the author noting the rebuild aims at cockpit detail.

: 6.31 MB
: 1.5K
: 3

Complete with Base Model

Martin MB-2 Bomber

An MB-2 bomber model marks the first mass-produced design, shows a 1920 flight record, and remains in service until Keystone types replace it in the late 1920s. The cockpit follows a real photo with animated controls and a right-side pilot, gauges default, and the VC uses 3D switches with fuselage markings for Langley Field, DXT5.dds.

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

Complete with Base Model

Stinson 108 Voyager

Two factory color themes accompany a Stinson Voyager variant by Paul Clawson, with Blue-White and Red-cream finishes. The project features a 2D panel and a VC based on photographs, nav and landing lights controlled by the L key, and gauges included in the gauges folder, with the archive named Stin108X.zip.

: 961.31 KB
: 1.4K
: 2/5
: 3

Complete with Base Model

Updated Alphasim Freeware Arado Ar196

The freeware Arado Ar 196 uses the DXT3 format for its assets to preserve visual clarity, and the gauges operate fully. The model centers on the Ar 196 designation with a straightforward, compact presentation for enthusiasts.

: 1.15 MB
: 1.3K

Complete with Base Model

Junkers Ju52 IWC

Registration HB-HOS accompanies a Ju52 variant updated with a standard cockpit view and an option to convert to PICR operation. The model climbs and flies safely at 12,500 feet and offers full autopilot control including speed and Nav hold.

: 8.09 MB
: 1.3K
: 5/5

Repaint for Payware Model

Supermarine Spitfire MK IA Prototype K5054 3

An early Spitfire variant assigned to K5054 undergoes Farnborough tests in 1939 and crashes on 4 September 1939, and is written off. The SPIT1-3.ZIP archive includes two prop configurations, with only the three-blade setup revealing the correct spinner after startup while a two-blade variant displays a black spinner.

: 18.16 MB
: 1.2K
: 5/5
: 6

Complete with Base Model

Consolidated Commodore

Derives from the PY-1 flying boat, the Commodore first flies in 1930. Pan American Airways buys several for U.S. East Coast to Caribbean routes, carrying 22 passengers, while the virtual cockpit, modeled on an early PBY Catalina, features working gauges and animated flight controls, with no 2D panel.

: 4.22 MB
: 1.2K
: 4/5
: 2

Repaint

Spantax Beechcraft D18S

By Richard Wisman, this Spantax S.A. skin targets the D18S/SNB native variant of Milton Shupe's Beech D-18, built from archive Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor photos to resemble the original aircraft. It uses a skin set within the D18SX_DC folder, carries registration EC-ASJ, and reflects Madrid as head office, with Spantax operating 1959–1988.

: 16.84 MB
: 1.2K
: 6

Complete with Base Model

Waco Classic

The Waco Classic biplane is a freeware add-on, originally designed by Lynn and Bill Lyons and converted to this environment by David Grindele in Rowlett, Texas, featuring a stacked-wing layout and an open-cockpit design. It preserves a stable flight model and refined ground handling, with landing lights, strobes, and external elements aligned to standard expectations.

: 2.14 MB
: 1.1K
: 5/5
: 5

Complete with Base Model

P-38 Lightning "Fear The Reaper"

This model faithfully recreates Lockheed’s twin-boom fighter, preserving its distinctive silhouette and era-inspired cockpit presentation. Early production variants carry the designation P-38D, and Mel Mutter’s WWII-era cockpit panel adds period gauges, delivering an authentic flight-deck feel while maintaining a historically informed exterior concept.

: 13.72 MB
: 1.1K
: 1

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

An amphibian, this freeware rendition builds on Mike Stone’s original Catalina design and incorporates refinements by D. L. Tarbox (DLTextures) and Duane Tarbox. It preserves twin radial engines, a parasol wing, and bubble hatches, while lowering wing floats via a dedicated control and reusing standard gauges from the gauges folder.

: 1.71 MB
: 1.1K
: 5/5
: 1

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P51 Mustang D Little Freddie

Roger Dial origins the base model, with Robert Hawk applying the Little Freddie artwork across the fuselage and wings, and Mark Rooks delivering adaptation that preserves wartime traits, including the bubble canopy and laminar-flow wing, while the V-12 Merlin engine torque behavior shapes climbs and descents in a standalone release that gathers cockpit and landing gear in one folder.

: 6.65 MB
: 1.1K
: 1

Repaint

Luftwaffe Dornier Do 28 A

B. Lechner creates a fictitious variant for a Dornier twin-engine light aircraft, with Craig Richardson of Classic Wings listed as the creator. It relies on the original paintkit released with the aircraft and assigns atc_id 58+73, ui_manufacturer DORNIER, ui_type DO 28-A, and ui_variation LUFTWAFFE.

: 8.03 MB
: 1K
: 6

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RE-2005

Re_2005 Sagittario is a single-seat fighter-bomber with highly reflective metallic skin and full animations. Thirty-eight were built, engines include Daimler-Benz605 or FIAT RA.1050 RC.58 Tifone inverted V12, and a simple virtual cockpit with gauges mostly crafted by Giovanni Quai and Italo D'Attomo, dedicated to Capt. Paolo Quai.

: 1.65 MB
: 977
: 5/5
: 1

Complete with Base Model

P51 Mustang D Grim Reaper

Modified by Mark Fireball Rooks, the Mustang D associated with Lt. Robert E. Black of the 338th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, a unit activated in 1942 that served in the European Theater with P-38 and P-51 aircraft. An image at /userimages/p51grimot .JPG accompanies historical notes and squadron history.

: 3.91 MB
: 959
: 2/5
: 1

Repaint

Swiss Air Force Heinkel He 51

Fictional variant uses a freeware base model credited to Craig Richardson, Huub Vink, Tom Falley, and Mathias Pommerien, with artwork by B. Lechner, and features red-and-white markings with a Swiss cross, while requiring the He 51 base model for operation.

: 5.5 MB
: 930
: 1/5
: 4

Repaint

German Air Force Heinkel He 51

An historic variant presents a He 51 used by German aviation, with artwork by B. Lechner and an original model created by Craig Richardson, Huub Vink, Tom Falley, and Mathias Pommerien. It requires a separate base model from Fly Away Simulation and uses the file _62+L17 to designate the variation.

: 5.13 MB
: 905
: 4

Complete with Base Model

Bristol Scout D Of The Royal Flying Corps

By Tony Adams, this Bristol Scout variant is modeled with FSDS3.5 and Photoshop CS2 artwork, and it includes both 2D and virtual cockpit panels. In external views the pilot is animated to show stick and rudder input, with head movement.

: 6.3 MB
: 855
: 2

Complete with Base Model

Vickers Vimy Commercial

Version 3 covers the Vimy Commercial, a postwar airliner adaptation of the bomber, with 44 built and most delivered to China. G-EASI 'City of London' flies for Instone Air Line and Imperial Airways between 1920 and 1926, while the edition improves flight dynamics, panel, and sounds, and includes a separate VimyC_30.zip for the older variant.

: 14.12 MB
: 831
: 5/5
: 3