Wilmington Airport (ICAO: KILG) (formerly known as New Castle County Airport), is located in New Castle County, Delaware.
The facility is five miles (8 km) south of Wilmington and approximately 30 miles (50 km) south of Philadelphia. Avelo Airlines began regular service at KILG in February of 2023.
The Innaugural flight (Flight XP559), was from KILG to KMCO (Orlando International Airport) and featured a Boeing 737-7H4, Registration N701VL. Avelo founder, chairman, and ceo, Andrew Levy, accompanied the passengers on that innaugural flight.
N701VL for the PMDG 737-700, by "Krake802" https://flightsim.to/file/33360/avelo-n701vl-8k
This project contains custom PBR textured models created specifically for this project by Mamu82. These models include the main terminal, the control tower, the main National Guard C130 Hangar, Delaware Air National Guard Fire Dept Sta. 33, the Atlantic Aviation FBO, the Fly Advanced FBO, the Flight Safety International facility, and the corporate hangars located next to the tower.
This project also includes multiple freeware and payware models by authors credited later in this document.
This project makes use of 4 publicly available freeware model libraries. If you chose to forgo them, you won't see those particular features such as animated humans, some light sources, small objects like vending machines, etc.
"Animated Human 3d Models Library" by SuperSpud, https://flightsim.to/file/33166/animated-humans-library
"EDHK Lights & Objects Developers Pack (Asset-Pack)" by MrMo, https://flightsim.to/file/2549/edhk-lights-pack
"Dave's Higher-Res Crooked Library" by BadMed, https://flightsim.to/file/15769/dave-s-higher-res-crooked-library
"Emerald Object Library" by RotorNut44, https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library
Included with this airport is a folder named "KILG-TreeFix", this mod file is composed of terraforming polygons that fix the blocky photogrametry trees around the airport (and a large portion of New Castle County Delaware).
This airport includes a GSX Pro profile named "KILG-GSXPRO.ini". GSX Pro users should place this file in %APPDATA%\Virtuali\GSX\MSFS.
Enter "%APPDATA%\Virtuali\GSX\MSFS" in a windows search box to locate the directory. Users without GSX can just delete the profile.
Some of areas of this project and some of the buildings are considered place holders. For example, the "Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center" will likely be modeled. IRL it's used to train Army helo crews.
P.S.
Things to look for while you're visiting KILG. Thanks to Mamu82, a tractor cuts the grass near the terminal every morning from 6:20am to 10am. Also the Airport Speedway is just 2000ft west of KILG (on your left as you depart RW 1), and Mamu has animated the Midget sprint car races.
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KILG History
Construction began on what was Delaware's First Public airport in 1941, the Greater Wilmington Airport.
The airport was taken over by the United States Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack in December.
In 1942 the Army leased the airport for one dollar a year, and renamed it the "New Castle Army Air Base".
The Army hastily built seventy-nine buildings in ninety days, 300 in a year. The base housed 5,000 personnel. From here, bombers and fighters came and went from Europe, and C-54 Skymasters ferried supplies to India. Little, if anything, survives of the wartime facilities. A control tower and terminal were built postwar (1954–1956, W. Ellis Preston). The terminal has lost some of its original touches, but retains colored terrazzo floors and plate-glass windows. Nationwide, few terminals of this vintage survive intact.
The base fascilitated the movement of aircraft to the British and other Allies. Members of the historic Women Air Service Pilots (WASP) served as test and ferry pilots and towed targets for student gunners. There is a statue today at the airport that honors the women of the WASP who served their country in the time of need.
After the war ended, control of the airport was returned to civil authorities. A joint-use agreement was made between the United States Air Force and New Castle County authorities for a portion of the airport being retained for an Air National Guard Base. Trans World Airlines (TWA) operated a large overhaul base for its overseas planes at the airport until 1957 when the airline moved it to the Kansas City Overhaul Base which became the basis for today's Kansas City International Airport.
Delaware's first airline flights were operated by TWA and American Airlines at Wilmington in late 1947.
By 1967, Eastern Airlines was operating Douglas DC-9 jet service into the airport with nonstops to New York Newark Airport, Philadelphia Airport, and Washington D.C. National Airport as well as direct flights to Atlanta and Charlotte.[8]
Allegheny Airlines also served Wilmington. In 1968, AL had four daily departures using their F-27s nonstop to Philadelphia, Washington's National Airport, Atlantic City, and Trenton. In 1969, Allegheny no longer flew F-27s and changed the four departures to Convair 580 prop-jets with two to DCA, one to PHL, and one to ACY.[9]
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Airport_(Delaware) and, https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-NC4
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This project includes payware and freeware 3d models by the following artists, all of which were downloaded from either Sketchfab or CG Trader.
USERNAME, "Model Name"
Helijah, "Beechcraft C18, Bell Twin Huey, Boeing 247D, Curtis JN4, DC-3, Diamond DA40, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, Draco Wilga, F-86 Saber "Gate Guard", North American T-28 Trojan, Pilatus PC-12, TBM 930"
Terminal-NJ, "P-51 (Low Poly)"
Stecki, "70 Chevelle SS, 2005 Mustang GT, 2206 Charger SRT/8"
Alex. KA., "1995 Ferrari F50, 1969 Charger Daytona"
ROH3D, "2018 Chevy Trailboss Crew Cab"
TSB3DMODELS, "Ford Ranger POLICE"
Steven Mai, "Components of Crane" (Grove RT530E)
Some Bloke, "Tardis 2020"
Studio Labs, "Road Barrier (Toll gate)
Rescue3d Assets, "Fire Truck, Ambulance Vehicle"
Miguel Bandera, "Senor Motorcycle Bike -Photogrametry Scan"
Lowmod, "Indian FTR 1200"
Sidra, "H135 Airbus Helicopter"
Netrunner75, "71 Plymouth Barracuda, 63 Corvette Split Window, Porche 911"
attben, "Boeing 717-200, ATR-72"
tivsol, "Airport Hangar 1 UEEE"
Windhover, "Open Hangar Library" (excellent freeware)
Snowdrop-2018, "Petrol Station (Shell), Airport Hangar, Airport Warehouse Hangar, Burgerking and McDonalds".
wulfgar, "Shell Sign Fuel Serivce Station"
Polycube Studios, "Commerical Building-026 Comfort Inn and Suites Hotel".
3dArcMaster, "Urban City Building 4, Urban City Building 12"
Rahul Kumar Dey, "Garage asset Welding Kit,fire extinguisher"
sonalbhagora, "Tractor Free 3d Model" (John Deere)
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Don't miss these incredible freeware mods by Mamu82!
Powerlines and Solar Farms, https://flightsim.to/file/26186/powerlines-and-solar-farms
Marinas, https://flightsim.to/file/38499/mamudesign-marinas
Project Lifts - Chairlifts, Gondolas and Cablecars of the entire world, https://flightsim.to/file/14840/project-litfts-europe
Also make sure to check out his series of freeware Italian airfields, which have features like animated hangar doors, tractors, trains, etc.
Congratulations to Puffin Flight for achieving global coverage with his "WeLoveVFR" project.
https://flightsim.to/file/2605/we-love-vfr-region-1
https://flightsim.to/file/16674/we-love-vfr-region-2
https://flightsim.to/file/52211/we-love-vfr-region-3
https://flightsim.to/file/24818/we-love-vfr-xtra-fireworks
Shout out to Henrick "KL791" Nielsen for surpassing a decade with his global shipping mod!
Special thanks for RotorNut44 of Emerald Scenery Design, for graciously permitting freeware developers to utilize objects from his scenery library. https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library Don't miss his FA08, Kermit Week's "Fantasy of Flight". https://flightsim.to/file/16471/fantasy-of-flight-fa08
Shout out to all MSFS developers, of all shapes and sizes. Too many talented people to list in one document, each a credit to the MSFS community.
If you're into racing, be sure to check out Robi's "Old Bridge Flight School 3N6, Englishtown, NJ USA" https://flightsim.to/file/44605/old-bridge-flight-school-airport-3n6
2 months ago
CaptainMoonlight
9 months ago
kapazunder33
10 months ago
mborgia
Top notch airport! I love msfs for this reason. Smaller, beautiful airports are now represented. Exceptional details, both in textures and objects. Much better than some payware. Thank you!
11 months ago
tangjuice81
THANK YOU! I've been waiting for someone to take a shot at this airport! It looks great! May I suggest some future enhancements? It is a bit frame heavy, so maybe remove some ground objects to help performance? Maybe update some textures to help it feel older and used, as opposed to the pristine condition it is currently in? Also, the toolbar push back wouldn't work for me since the field wouldn't open with the tugs on stand. Not sure if that's within your control or not though. Stand 1 and 2 didn't work. But either way, 5 out of 5, well done and thanks again!
1 years ago
dchap1
I was wondering why I have pink square textures covered on a lot of my buildings including the tower. I've installed all dependencies. Any thoughts on this?
1 years ago
I'm not sure. I just downloaded the latest version, unzipped it, and installed it. I'm not seeing any pink areas. Pink areas usually indicate missing textures, or a gpu driver issue.
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
PantherConsult
I am getting an error message that I believe is indication an attempted file extraction has too long a pathway file name. Part is due to my directory structure, but the particular json filename is also extremenly long.
Cannot create
"K:\MSFS Addons\Scenery\Mid Atlantic and Pennsylvania\Delaware\Wilmington DE airport and water fix\waldop-airport-kilg-wilmington\scenery\Airport-KILG-Wilmington\kilg-modellib\texture\CHEVELLE_WHEEL_01TIRE_01WHL_TIR_BFGDRCH_GFTA_BLK_M_MAT_BASECOLOR.PNG.DDS.json".
1 years ago
I'll fix it, thanks
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
fppilot
Great to see my home airport added to the sim! I've seen your tag sitting on the ramp for a while now when flying and now I know why! Nicely done and thank you very much!
1 years ago
You're welcome, Drano. I just posted a version with way less ramp lights, for people who prefer things more realistic.
It's my home airport too, really got tired of see how bad it was in the default sim.
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
Drano
I've driven by this airport many times and it's great to finally see it in the sim and at such a high quality for freeware. Love all the little extras and finer detail. It is heavy on frame rates though so I removed the tractor and sprint cars which seem to make things a little bit smoother but not perfect. Thank you for creating this!
1 years ago
Propblur
Well done! I've driven Rt 13 past this airport many times in years past, on my way to the nylon plant in Seaford. Never set foot on the property so I can't say how accurate it is, but I can tell you it essentially matches how I remember it. Gave me a big smile when I first spawned in, and I spent at least half an hour exploring the field in a chopper. And of course it's vastly superior to the default scenery.
If you’re looking for another project in the area, KRDG just north in Reading PA sorely needs some love. It’s home to the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum.
1 years ago
I'd love to see the Reading and the MAAM brought into the sim. If you're looking for something similar to the MAAM, check out 42VA Military Aviation Museum that was recently uploaded here.
1 years ago
Propblur
OTBU
Looks very good! Only issue is an excess of ramp lights everywhere where there are not ramp lights in real life... why does everyone place so many ramp lights! LOL.
1 years ago
=) Mostly because A) I've never set foot inside the airport, B) my inquiries for more information were politely declined by several entities, and C) I didn't want to be "that guy" who gets detained by the DRBA police for taking photos along the fence line. Too much post 9/11 security paranoia.
The default KILG had a lot of issues, and I basically recreated it by examining it in Google Earth. I drive by it several times a week, but the road's elevation is below the airport so it's hard to get a look at. Hopefully, now that it's released, people with 1st hand experience can provide some input.
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
jonmkj
If I could leave 10 stars I would. Outstanding creation. I enjoy all the extras you have developed to bring life to the airport...I also have been trying to create a world within the airport besides a runway and a few buildings on all of our sceneries...the sprint cars and the tractor are just an added bonus. Again, congratulations.....highly recommend!
1 years ago
Appreciate the kind words! I was just checking out your page, looks like I have some downloading to do. =)
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
dvlcreations
Thank you for adding this. This is a great addition. I actually work for Avelo in New Haven. I've been to ILG also this is very accurate. Crossing my fingers for a Tweed-New Haven Airport upgrade with Avelo included. Thanks again!!!!
1 years ago
That's awesome man! Avelo seems to be doing rather well here, the parking lots are always full and summer hasn't even arrived yet. Which is something that cannot be said of Frontier's time here.
I'm happy because we have a 737 which basically lives here, and every once in a while when the weather minimums stack up right I get to see two of them sitting side by side there. Does my heart good to see the old girl (kilg) living a more productive life. And to be honest, I kind of like the entire underdog aspect of the fledgling Avelo. I think there were some bold moves by Levy during an uncertain, but potentially opportune time. The entire industry was basically emerging from a meat grinder in the form of a virus. I think he showed some grit. I think it was pretty cool that he flew on the inaugural, I watched a YT video of the flight. So far the customer feedback about the facility and airline itself are very positive. I think they'll do great here.
1 years ago
WaldoP3pper
usmarinesoldier