The DE Havilland Chipmunk is pretty vintage in my mind and is a reasonable price on JF. It’s not without flaws, but is a joy to fly and well worth the money. The flight characteristics are very good.
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I really like the Kinner Sportswing and never had an issue with it. Admittedly with TrackIR you do not notice particular textures the way someone stuck in a 2D cockpit does, but it flew really well, the sound was amazing and the external textures were stunning. The internal cockpit needed work but they were committed to fixing that.
For those that are unaware they were then hounded by a few people on these forums, some of whom accused them of deliberately ripping off customers and selling a shonky product EVEN THOUGH they had released a video that fully disclosed exactly what you are buying.
As a result they withdrew it from sale refunded everyone’s money, released it as freeware and said they were no longer interested in developing for MSFS. This is sad as they were intending to bring their other products over eventually , including a Stinson SR8 Gullwing, Monocoupe Model 90, Ryan SC_W, Ryan B-5, Curtis CW-1, Luscombe Phantom, Brunner Winklebird and Fairfield KR-21 .
The Kinner is still available as freeware - note that the download link below fails on chrome due to some weird security issue chrome has, but works fine in other browsers.
GOLDEN AGES SIMULATIONS Kinner Sportswing Freeware download:
http://goldenagesimulations.com/downloads/freeware/GAS_Kinner_B2_MSFS.zip
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I am big fan of vintage airplane, too. A cute one I’ve never seen in a sim is this Aero Ae-45 (seen at the vintage fly-in in Bienenfarm near Berlin last year):
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I’m loving the Grumman Goose, an absolute blast to play around with.
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It is really a tragedy that Golden Age Simulations got a sour taste from their first effort at creating models for MSFS. They have some great planes for FSX. I contacted them about a year+ ago and they now refuse to upgrade any of their hanger for MSFS. Thanks for the tip about the Kinner. I have added it to my hangar. I good friend of mine owned one.
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I enjoy the JRF-6 Goose (Big Radials), the Boeing 247D (Wing42), the JU-52 (MS/Asobo), and the Beech D17 Staggerwing (Carenado).
All good, vintage fun and lots of character.
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The Goose, Staggerwing and Beech Twin 18 are some of my favs to the fly in the sim. Nice old gals that reward you for paying attention. 
L-188 Electra!
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We lost at least half a dozen vintage planes no one else is likely to ever do, through the childish entitled demanding behaviour that has become all to common on here. To make matters worse, the same individuals if pulled up on it get very defensive and start talking about how they paid good money for this product and are just exercising their rights as a paying customer.
I would say it goes beyond a sour taste. The ridiculously entitled way people on these forums get abusive and personal about quite minor faults in products, expect instant one on one responses to any issues they have, and seem to assume if bugs cannot be fixed within a week the devs have deliberately abandoned the product, all on products worth just a few dollars, is not even slightly helpful. It basically results in devs leaving the forums and refusing to discuss things at all or in some cases deciding not to bother developing for MSFS at all.
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Perfectly said and exactly how I feel, too.
Anyway, let’s get back to talking about vintage aircraft for flight simming… cause, because with fuel at $8.20 a gallon, and the current airplane market since covid started, I won’t be buying one anytime soon. Good thing is, maybe it’ll make the price of aircraft come back down out of the stratosphere… even renting is hard, the place I rent from went from $159/hr (wet) to $209 for a Piper Warrior, and I essentially can’t even rent for a whole day because they’re too busy with flight training.
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I am almost exclusively interested in older aircraft. When MSFS came out, I was very disappointed with the aircraft it offered, since there was not a single one I was interested in, apart perhaps of the Savage Cub because it looked like a real Piper Cub…
Luckily interesteing aircraft came along relatively quickly, the Goose, the Spitfire, the P149 etc…
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It is a shame. The Golden Age Simulations Lockheed12 was my favorite aircraft of FSX. I loved that plane and flew many vectors for an ILS in it.
Never say never. We’re finishing a project and once release heading to the hangar consider next steps. For those offering support thanks for those that will never be satisfied.,we can’t change that. No dev can.
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I remain hopeful that Golden Age Simulations will return to MSFS, in fact - I look forward to it.
Best of luck on your Navy Works N3N project, Paul.
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Thanks. I’ll admit we made a huge strategic error in outsourcing the Kinner conversion. Without a clear understanding of the new workflow we were at their mercy. Very talented team but lesson learned, do your own heavy lifting and so here we are. Don’t expect an N3N our the gate. More likely the a Curtiss or DeHavilland
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Golden Age Simulations: just a couple of favorites of mine - from FSX days
Fleet, Curtiss, DeHavilland, Waco, Stearman, Pitcairn, Ryan - whatever you guys want to do - Please do
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Excited to hear you’re considering revisiting the platform! I was so psyched that you released the Fleet Finch for FSX/P3D. My great uncle trained on those (and wrote that it was his favorite plane) before going off to fly Wellingtons for the RCAF in the Egyptian theater. It’s a plane most people haven’t even heard of, so it was really amazing to be able to fly a nicely modeled version in a sim.
A deHavilland Beaver with this cabin would be absolute great!
It´s from 1948 - in car-years one could call it “antiqué” but I think it´s more a classic one.
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And next one to it on right,
Pe2 Kukuruznik.
Polikarpov Po2
The Pe2 was a twin engine dive bomber made by Petlyakov. Totally different aircraft.