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Aircraft storage during the Covid Pandemic

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Aircraft storage during the Covid Pandemic

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Just a little something I found interesting that I thought others might like to see.

I’ve just been checking through the Omega tanker flight plan airports for the new KC-10 packages and all is OK except for Victorville (KVCV) where the default parking spot is too small. No problem in correcting that and providing a custom file. What was interesting though was reading the write-up in Wikki and looking at the airfield in Google Earth. It was previously known as George AFB. It is now a facility for large numbers of laid-up commercial airliners put into storage because of the Covid pandemic. The whole Quantas A380 fleet is there apparently. Search Google Earth with "George AFB California".

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The AFCAD needs some additional parking spots :)
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Even before the Pandemic and to this day, Victorville has been one of the US' major aircraft Boneyards. A variety of different aircraft have flown into VCV to be put into storage or scrapped. Back in the George AFB era, it was a major fighter base back in the Cold War and hosted many different Cold War era jets like the F-86, 102, 104, 105, 106, and F-4. George was one of the bases that closed down in the early 90s.

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JY,
I'm over VCV weekly on my trips and love looking down trying to count the amount aircraft,especially during the beginning of the pandemic. Also you could have a look at Roswell, NM.
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Aha, Roswell looks to be storing American Airlines jets.

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Is that behind the flying saucers?

Oh come on, you must have been expecting some idiot to say it.
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Firebird wrote: 08 Aug 2021, 09:46 Is that behind the flying saucers?

Oh come on, you must have been expecting some idiot to say it.
I thought they were all at Area 51 :D
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I find this file "Predator AF2_KVCV.bgl" in a March AFC directory in my FS9... but is an ugly AFCAD.

If someone have got a good KVCV Afcad/Ade file (for FS9 or FSX) I'm interested.

Thanks a lot.
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Ouch, that is a bit mean.
It looks like a nice afcad but if you mean that there is an afcad and there is nothing else then I can go with you on that.

If that is the case you can always use the FRF scenery for Victorville and mod the afcad for the Predator parking area.
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