X-Plane scenery

X-Plane 11 KABR Aberdeen Regional Airport Scenery

KABR Aberdeen Regional Airport scenery brings Brown County, South Dakota to life with detailed hangars, ramp clutter, and a believable small-city airfield atmosphere for X-Plane 11. It also nods to the field’s World War II glider-training heritage through thoughtful layout and surroundings, and requires OpenSceneryX for full object coverage.

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A turboprop aircraft is parked on the apron near ground service vehicles, with a larger jet and orange hangar in the background.

A small airport features several hangars, a control tower, parked general aviation aircraft, and a commercial jet near a taxiway.

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Expert Overview

This highly detailed recreation of KABR Aberdeen Regional Airport enhances X-Plane 11 with accurately modeled hangars, buildings, and surrounding landscapes inspired by the real-world environment. It incorporates subtle nods to the airport’s historical role during World War II, bringing a captivating sense of history to your flights. The custom 3D objects, ground textures, and lighting features blend seamlessly, providing an immersive airfield atmosphere that celebrates both modern operations and vintage glider pilot training origins.

Developed by Fred Schutzman, this mod delivers an authentic glimpse of Brown County’s pride while ensuring practical performance in your simulator. From crisp apron details to well-placed static aircraft, each element is designed to enhance realism without compromising frame rate. Compatibility with OpenSceneryX supports beautifully integrated assets for a more vivid experience and, in my testing, the effect truly elevates the sense of place as you taxi, take off, and land at Aberdeen’s historic airfield.

Aberdeen Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located 2 nm east of the central business district of Aberdeen, a city in Brown County, South Dakota, United States.

Airport with hangers and stationary planes. During World War II the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces as a contract glider training airfield owned by Anderson and Brennan Flying Service, beginning on 25 May 1942.

The mission of the school was to train glider pilot students in proficiency in operation of gliders in various types of towed and soaring flight, both day and night, and in servicing of gliders in the field. Requires: OpenSceneryX (OPENSCENERYX.ZIP).

By Fred Schutzman.

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kabr.zip

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204.16 KB

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Requires dependencies

This add-on may require the following files to function properly. If this is a repaint, the dependency below is likely the base aircraft package.

OpenSceneryX.zip

How to install this mod

X-Plane scenery

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Copy into Custom Scenery

Place the scenery folder into X-Plane 12/Custom Scenery/.
Set scenery load order

X-Plane loads sceneries top-to-bottom from Custom Scenery/scenery_packs.ini. Custom airports should be ABOVE mesh and ortho-imagery.
Restart X-Plane

Close X-Plane completely and relaunch. The new content loads automatically.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

What’s inside this archive

The archive kabr.zip has 11 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

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Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
KABR	06.28.17	0 B
Earth nav data	06.25.17	0 B
+40-100	06.25.17	0 B
+45-099.dsf	06.26.17	5.66 kB
apt.dat	06.26.17	40.75 kB
earth.wed.bak.xml	06.25.17	620.22 kB
earth.wed.xml	06.25.17	620.22 kB
image1.jpg	06.28.17	63.72 kB
image2.jpg	06.28.17	61.84 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B