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With my love of maps, and exploration, I great enjoyment from locating these little known and abandoned airfields...>>>

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

...with the aid of my many collection of maps; and overflying, landing, and exploring many of them in my Flight Sims!

I have explored many of the various locations in the State of California over many years....>>>

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA.htm

The history on them can often be obtained through Wikipedia, etc, and they always make a fascinating read...for me... ...!

Many of them have now disappeared under cultivated fields, commercial sites, housing estates, etc....or even just flooded (Hamilton AFB)!

A typical example for me being the airfields at Alameda NAS and Hamilton AFB in the San Francisco area...now long gone, but not forgotten, and still with their past history being revealed!

Its always fun finding finding out about places and things, history, geography, etc, with the aid of our Flight Sims!...I love it!.... ...!

Paul.... ...!

I agree with you Fozzer Sometime I jump into my Cessna RG150 and fly slow and low looking for old airfields. I actually grow up within 300 yards of a abandoned air field. By the time I moved there it was already closed and a Baptist Church now stands there. But you could see where the fuel pumps used to be, and the field still had some concrete in it. which is why I have scars on my legs from playing football and other sports on it.
Unfortunately FSX or FS9 will not have a lot of the old air fields and one has to do a lot of research to find any.
On one of my many around the earth flights that is exactly what I did was to fly in and out of the small and private airports you can find in the default scenery. This was really a blast as you never know what you were going to find and some of the fields in the mountain areas were tricky getting in and out of.

Hello Fozzer, it appears that you and I use our flight sims in a similar way. Besides being a lifelong aviation addict I also use FSX etc. for other great things. I constantly travel the world reliving famous flights such as Amelia Earharts World flight etc. [ By the way, I DID find Howland Island and I could see why she missed it]. I have flown around the world twice on FSX. Whenever I hear about a flight my friends have made in their personal airplanes or Helos I go into FSX , load the same airplane and fly the trip. Its great fun and very interesting. Like you, I also like to have the best possible scenery for my air-touring. Glad you are enjoying your flight-simming as well.

That really is a very interesting site. I grew up in Montgomeryvile, PA, and took my first intro flight at a place called turner field. I knew this field closed in the early nineties, but had no idea that around 5 airfields in the same 10 mile radius suffered the same fate around the same time! All swallowed by cookie-cutter housing developments. Maybe its time to design some historic airfields in the Philadelphia suburbs! Thanks for making me aware of that site. I'm a long time reader and first time member here at simviation.