RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England.
For Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Version 1.1

By Terry Boissel    2016
 
RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 mi (5 km) north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 mi (18 km) south west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

RAF Bassingbourn was constructed by John Laing & Son between 1937 and 1939 in the parishes of Wendy and Bassingbourn immediately to the west of the A14 (now the A1198) road.  The site selected was low ground between several tributaries of the River Cam. The area had been long cleared of forest and tended to be swampy and unstable, and because the boggy ground produced a persistent mist over the large meadow the site was considered ideal for airfield camouflage.

During the Second World War it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber airfield of the Eighth Air Force, of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It remains the home of the Tower Museum Bassingbourn. From 19 August 1942 to 25 June 1945, Bassingbourn served as headquarters for the 1st Combat Bombardment Wing of the 1st Bomb Division. It was assigned USAAF designation Station 121.

The RAF resumed occupation of Bassingbourn on 26 June 1945, the airfield was officially returned on 10 July 1945. The station became one of the main airfields for long-range transport aircraft. In 1948 and 1949 Avro York, Avro Lancaster and Douglas Dakota aircraft from the base took part in the Berlin Airlift, a massive operation transporting essential commodities to the beleaguered city.

In February 1952, RAF Bassingbourn received its first allocation of English Electric Canberra bombers and became the first jet bomber operational conversion unit (OCU) in the world. Canberras operated from Bassingbourn for 17 years and one of the aircraft is on static display in the Barracks. From 1963 to 1969 the Joint School of Photographic Interpretation was also located there.

On 29 August 1969, the last RAF Commanding Officer, Sqn Ldr A.M. McGregor MBE, turned over the station to the British Army as Bassingbourn Barracks. 

The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Bassingbourn airfield, in January 1970, as the new Depot for the Queen's Division. The depot was responsible for training recruits undergoing their 19-week basic training before joining a regular battalion; in 1993 the Barracks were re-designated the home of the "Army Training Regiment, Bassingbourn" and remained as such for nearly 20 years.  Bassingbourn Barracks closed as an army training location in August 2012. 
The site was reopened for training Libyan soldiers in 2014 but closed down the same year. 

Since approximately 1970 the site has retained its RAF links by being the home of 2484 (Bassingbourn) Squadron Air Training Corps.

Source: Wikipedia

My version of RAF Bassingbourn is based on an ariel photograph taken by an aircraft of 542 Sqn on 23 August 1945.(The Squadron was disbanded some 5 days later on the 27 Aug 45). 

The runways, peri track and hangars are pretty much as was;  As usual I have used buildings that are correct for the period just to give a flavour of a wartime station. 


There are no peri-track or runway markings as these were not used until sometime after the war. I have however, kept the use of the lights as a form of lighting was used during the war, clearly they would not of been on all the time like mine, but as the hangers show at night I decided to keep the lights.  :)

The scenery was produced using Airport Design Editor FSX Edition V01.67.5876.20005 by Scruffyduck Software.

I would like to give credit and to acknowledge the following authors without whose work I could not make add-on sceneries;if used in this particular scenery then all credit for the models contained in it is theirs I merely placed it.   
	
 
	Ted Andrews
	Ian Pearson
	Mike Hudson
	Bill Womack
	Sidney Schwartz & Matin Gossmann

You will reqire: 
	
	dlwobjects.bgl	 		Ian Pearson
	ijpfsxobjects.bgl	 

	RAF Buildings_msh_v2.bgl	Mike Hudson	

	Vintage Military Obects		By Sidney Schwartz & Martin Gossman		 	

	RAF Controls Towers 		by Ted Andrews
	RAF Small Buildings		 
	RAF Buildins Vol2
	RAF Hangers
	RAF operational Bld
	RAF Buildingslib Vol2

	RAF_WWII_buildings.BGL		Bill Womack

	
Some of the add-on scenery objects can be found through the relevant links on Ian Pearsons web site which is at http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk, or Avsim, Flightsim.or simviation.


Installation:
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Unzip the folder RAF Bassingbourn Zip in to your FSX Addon scenery folder or to a folder of your choice, start FSX and through the Scenery Library editor, add the new folder(s) to the Addon Scenery folder or a folder of your choice.


Legal Stuff:

If I have included any item within my scenery and not given credit to it author please contact me and I will be only to happy to do so, it is not my intention to take credit in any way for the work, time and effort in someone else's work.

The scenery is provided "as is" and no form of warranty is made whatsoever. Uploading this scenery is your choice and I cannot be held responsible for any adverse effects it may or may not have on your system. If you are not happy with these conditions please do not load the scenery. 

I am more than happy for you to alter/improve the scenery for your own use, however, if you upload any of it please make sure you give credit to the relevant authors including myself.   

This scenery is provided as Freeware and must remain so.

Terry Boissel
terryboissel@gmail.com