UK2000 Scenery has recently released their rendition of Chicago Aurora Municipal Airport (KARR) for Microsoft Flight Simulator, a public airport serving the city of Aurora, in Illinois. It’s sometimes used as a reliever airport for O’Hare and Midway, due to its proximity to Chicago (80 kilometers west). 

It houses the Air Classics Museum of Aviation, which includes a collection of aircraft, vehicles, uniforms, and other aviation memorabilia from the 30s to the current day. The aircraft collection includes a Republic P-47D Thunderbolt replica, a Bayerische Flugwerke Messerschmitt BF-109 replica, a North American Aviation RF-86F Sabre, a McDonnell Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk, a Republic Aviation F-105D Thunderchief, a North American T-39 Sabreliner, a McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II, a Ling-Temco-Vought A-7E Corsair II, a Bell UH-1H Iroquois, a Curtiss P-40 WarHawk replica, and a North American Aviation P-51D Mustang Replica.

As a curious fact, the Aurora Municipal Airport is one of the few airports in the United States where the FAA and IATA identifiers are not the same, because ARR was taken on the IATA by an airport in Argentina. Thus, it uses AUZ as its IATA code. 

The traffic figures sit at 76,650 aircraft operations between April 2021 and April 2022, averaging 210 per day, with 98% corresponding to general aviation, 2% to air taxi, and 1% to military and commercial, respectively. 

The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport as it stands, with full-detail buildings, realistic ground markings, high-resolution ground imagery, custom night lighting, high-detail airport vehicles, full set of signs, fencing, vegetation, PBR materials, interior details and parallax internals, and optional static aircraft.

It’s available on UK2000’s Store and SimMarket for roughly $15.65 and $14.15, respectively. At least 24 MB of free disk space is required to install the product.

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