I’ve just started to search google maps for abandoned (or very remote, bad quality) airfields around the world (usually not marked in MSFS world menu). I completed my world tour after almost 1500 hours and now I feel like I need a new objective. So I went out exploring for them. It’s exciting to not know if it will be serviceable or not, it’s like a little adventure.
Here is what I visited so far. Some of them have some bushes and obstacles, so you should use a small aircraft when possible, typically bushcraft :
I landed here for real back in the 90’s in a Twin Otter. Had the first row aisle seat so was able to watch the goats being shoo’d off the runway on final
There are lots of “I can’t believe that’s an airport!” type strips in Canada that aren’t in the game. Many of those are even serviceable runways with regular air traffic. Hopefully some of that will be rectified with the world update.
Yup finding about these old airfields is fascinating …
In fact after my world tour is over (almost there), I’ve been thinking about a purely VFR no-GPS no-radioNav ocean to ocean cross-USA trip using the freeware Cessna 170, and using only abandoned runways as stops …
In 2020 I built a map out of the data of this site [Edit: and now have updated it with August 2022 data], you can have a look here : Mymaps : Abandoned & Small Airfields [USA]
Hey, just wanted to let you know that I have started a similar project for the DRC. There are more than 400 little airfields in the country and I have been researching them for quite some years now. I got a ton of info about many of them, but it takes a long time to implement everything into a reasonably good-looking website. I just started with the “A” area (Kinshasa & Kongo Central/Bas-Congo).
