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No, this isn't a post of a bunch of planes.  I wouldn't do that because it would start a lot of arguing.

Anyway,  while making my Around Earth post, I came across this airport.  When I say the name in FS9, I thought it would be some tiny grass strip in the middle of nowhere that had a weird name.

Boy I was wrong.




I wasn't that wrong.  It was a grass strip AND it was sort of in the middle of knowhere.(It's in Florida)

If anyone knows about this airport, do tell.

Everglades or something...?

Is it default?

yes it is default.  It is called 'world's greatest aircraft collection'

FA08 - Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection
Polk City, FL

A 1551 m/5090 ft grass runway!
One end of 4/22 sits rather close to Interstate 4.

http://www.floridapilot.com/Fantasy%20to%20Ground%20School.htm

Looks like fun!
*goes off to fly*

It is the home of Kermit Weeks' "Fantasy of Flight" Collection...

Debatable title though - one of the world's greatest, but not the greatest, for that lies in a little corner of Bedfordshire...

Yea, I wouldn't ever label something the worlds greatest.  Maybe it is just a self-centered american way of saying it, since it may be the best collection in america.

nice find! that's a pretty long grass runway

What is that plane you used there ?

It is the Fairchild C-82.  An AMAZING plane by Daisuke Yamamoto.  It is on the major sites, and It is the plane from the original flight of the phoenix, and it comes with a phoenix.  

nice find! that's a pretty long grass runway

It needs to be - Kermit Weeks owns a B-24 and a B-17 which reside there.

Does anyone else have a AI DC3 crashed/tipped on its nose at the end of the runway opposite to the hangars, about 100m to the right of the threshold in FS2004?

Haha... yeah.  

EDIT: Here's a protest about the real 'crashed' DC-3 at that airport, complete with pictures: Linky

I might add that I found a building macro nearby that I'd never seen before - a decrepit old shack with a corrugated metal roof.

I posted pics of all of the above mentioned things in the post Worlds greatest aircraft Collection airport 2

[quote]Haha... yeah.