Impulse Simulations has recently released their rendition of Alice Springs Airport (YBAS) for Microsoft Flight Simulator, serving the city of Alice Springs, Australia, with a yearly average of 600,000 passengers.

The airport, originally named Seven Mile Aerodrome, was built in the 1940s by the Australian Department of Defence and used by the Royal Australian Air Force and the USAF during World War 2. It was an important refueling and staging facility run by No. 57 Operational Base Unit. It only got its current name way after the war, in 1958.

As a curiosity, it has the first large-scale aircraft boneyard outside of the United States. Operating since 2014, the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage offers a dry and safe environment for long-term storage of airplanes, be it a functioning plane but not in use or decommissioned units that will be scrapped for parts.

It is served by Airnorth (Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek), Alliance Airlines (charter), Qantas (Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney), QantasLink (Adelaide, Darwin), and Virgin Australia (Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin). 

The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with realistic ground & apron texturing, custom night lighting, a partially replicated cafe interior, full PBR texturing, custom animations, custom vegetation & grass, a detailed static graveyard, over a hundred custom-modeled objects and buildings, custom taxiway signage, 20,000 hand placed objects, and more than a hundred custom assets.

It’s available on OrbxDirect for roughly $19.90, requiring at least 3.34 GB of free hard disk space to install.

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