Yesterday there has been an expected announcement from MS and Asobo about a new "edition" of MSFS coming this year in November 2022.
This new edition, called 40th anniversary, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Flight simulator franchise.
Just like the GOTY edition that was released last year, this new edition will include some new planes and helicopters, as follows:
Historical Aircraft:
Wright Flyer
Ryan NYP (“Spirit of St. Louis”)
Douglas DC-3
De Havilland Canada DHC-2-Beaver
Helicopters:
Bell-407
Guimbal Cabri G2
Gliders:
DG Flugzeugbau LG8-18
DG Flugzeugbau DG1001E neo
True-to-Life Airliner:
Airbus A310
All of these will come for free and anybody will be able to download these new addons once they are released, no matter which version of MSFS you have (standard or premium or premium deluxe).
It's also important to note that these aircraft are not made by Asobo. They are in fact made by third parties, within a collaboration agreement with Asobo. For example, the DC-3 is made by Aeroplane Heaven, while the Beaver is made by Milviz.
The most impressive one is probably the Airbus A310, which is made by Inibuilds. This addon maker might not be famous (yet) in the FS world because they are actually coming from the Xplane world. That plane does in fact already exist in Xplane 11, and is known to be of very good quality and realism. Inibuilds has announced their plane has been improved further for MSFS, which is really great news, especially we get all of that for free I would encourage you to check the reviews of the plane for XPlane in order to get an idea about what kind of quality level you can expect here.
Finally, in addition to all of these planes that will be available in November 2022, there is one more addon which is available for free as well, but also available right now: the Pelican from the Halo video game franchise. This is a purely Sci-Fi / Fun addon, which is of course a pure advertisement for the Halo video game from Microsoft, but still it's nice to get a fun addon very nicely modelled both inside and out, with both a VTOL and conventional flight mode (switchable from the cockpit). This plane can be downloaded immediately from the marketplace within the sim, for free of course.
Here is a video of the announcement (watch until the end to see the Halo spaceship part ):
https://youtu.be/l_F20n8BwME
And a link to the announcement:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/06/12/ ... niversary/