Nestled in a crook of the Nashua River among the hills of Fitchburg, MA, lies Fitchburg Municipal Airport. Taking off from 14 you can see Boston in the distance once you get up and over the hills of Leominster, especially at night. The airport was originally the idea of a Stephen Wesley Haynes (I’ve included a copy of his history of the airport), a pilot recently returned from Europe after fighting in WWI. In and around 1924, he started buying property for the airport, and, along with the help of several other men and investors the airport began operation in June of 1929. It’s come a long way since then, most recently going through a major rebuild in 2020 in an attempt to attract more business flights. In that rebuild, runway 2-20 was closed, and 32-14 was reoriented by 2 degrees and lengthened by 501 ft to just over 5000 ft long to appease the insurance companies, meet the rules of the FAA, so that small business jets may safely land at the airport. It’s still listed as 32-14, though I believe there are plans to change it to 36 - 16 in the future.
This release updates the airport to its current configuration, not to mention I’ve updated a few of the hangars and the main lobby to look a little more accurate (sorry, I haven’t yet learned to model), added all the fencing, fixed up all the parking and added some new spots at Twin City Airmotive, cleaned up everything, added the new self service fuel farm, added a helipad for those people who’d like to simulate the 24hr UMass Memorial Life Flight squadron on base (sorry, don't know how to make it so you can start cold and dark on the helipad), moved the beacon tower out of the middle of a hangar to its proper location, and many other details.
Fitchburg, an uncontrolled airport, offers full service fuel through it’s RCO channel at 118.025. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to activate fuel truck fuel delivery yet at uncontrolled airports. There is a self service fuel facility, to the west of the main terminal building (brand new, just opened a few months ago).
Finally, I also included a Services file which changes the services on the field so you don't see people with pushbacks everywhere.
I've also included a Living World Config file to reduce the types of vehicles that roam GA airports in a separate package you choose to install or not install: z_scenery-flyingscool-livingworld-medapt. I got rid of the large Pushback, the Fire trucks, the Buses, and made the pushback vehicle the tug and things like that. The issue is, this will affect all airports in Northern North America, since Asobo doesn't let us change the Living World config on an airport by airport basis like they allow us to modify the Services. To take advantage of this if those vehicles annoy you also install the z_scenery-flyingscool-livingworld-medapt package in your Community directory. If you don't want to affect your large airports in Northern North America, don't install the package, or remove it if you did install it.
You'll also need the UK2000 free object library you will find in the sim Marketplace, along with the other object libraries I list in the dependencies.
The airport is pretty much finished, I may fix up the grass around the airport, and as I do that and other work on it I'll post updates.
You can find related downloads, an aircraft that's available for rent at the airport, Cirrus SR22 livery N890CD, as well as a fuel truck livery for the local fuel supplier Titan Aviation Fuels in the dependencies.
Update Instructions:
Always delete the mod folder ('scenery-ma-flyingscool-kfitvx.x') from your community folder before copying any future updates.
Update v1.2 July 15, 2023:
Pretty major update to the surroundings -
- Redid the vegation and terraforming at both ends of runway for better approaches, and to match the work they did and what's there today.
- Changed out several more hangars for better choices
- Changed lights at self fuel station for better choices
- Redid a bunch of the river surrounding the airport, still needs work there
- A bunch of other minor upgrades
Update v1.1 July 04, 2023:
- Changed the Ground Frequency to FSS frequency
- did initial removal of TIN vegetation around runway
- included forgotten Living World Config package (oops!)
I didn't like that they take away CTAF access if you have a ground frequency. That's ridiculous. So I changed the Ground Frequency to FSS. I'm going to see if I can figure out a way to have a call to an FSS request a fuel truck.
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