Dominicdesignteam has recently released their rendition of El Paso International Airport (KELP) for Microsoft Flight Simulator, serving the cities of El Paso (Texas), Las Cruces (New Mexico), and Ciudad Juaréz (Mexico) with a yearly average of 3.6 million passengers.

It was built in 1929 by Standard Airlines as Standard Airport for transcontinental mail service, eventually becoming El Paso’s main airport in 1936 after Standard became a division of American Airlines, which liked Standard Airport better than the other El Paso Airport.

During World War 2, the US Army utilized El Paso Airport to train three different bombardment groups.

The first expansion happened in 1971, tripling the terminal size with two new concourses built behind the old terminal, designed by Garland & Hilles.

Its terminal features a pier-satellite layout and 15 gates, divided between A1 and A4 and B1-B11, with A1 and A4 being exclusively used by American Airlines and American Eagle, B1 for Delta Air Lines, B3, B5, B6, and B7 for Southwest Airlines, B10 for Allegiant, B8 and B9 for United Airlines and United Express, B4 for Alaska, and B11 for Frontier.

The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with PBR textures, dynamic lighting, real ground markings, custom hand-crafted pavement, custom jetway, custom animated objects, and more.

It’s available on SimMarket for roughly $17.99, requiring at least 781.63 MB of free hard disk space to install.

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