AEC - RAF Ludford Magna

RAF Ludford Magna by the Aerodrome Excavation Company.

At 430 feet above sea level RAF Ludford Magna was the highest airfield in Lincolnshire which gave it a very exposed position. The main runway was aligned north to south which caused problems for aircraft of the day, especially Lancasters which could be a handful on take off and landing in a cross wind.

The airfield was opened under the command of No 1 Group on 15th June 1943 with Lancasters of No 101 Squadron arriving from their former Yorkshire base of Holme-on-Spalding Moor and staying for the duration.

All flying ceased in 1945 and the airfield was placed on Care and Maintenance. In 1958 part of the airfield was reactivated for use with Thor ICBMs (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile). No 104 Squadron was formed in July 1959 to operate three ICBMs under the RAF Hemswell Missile Wing. Thor facilities stayed at the airfield until May 1963 when the missiles were withdrawn and the squadron disbanded.

The airfield is accurately laid out but some license was used for the infrastructure. It is representative of the period.

The scenery consists of:

• Full complement of hangars and support buildings


• Technical site and accommodation representative of the period


• Operational night lighting


• Dynamic night street lighting in Prepar3D v4


• Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO)


• Static Lancaster aircraft are included

System Requirements:

• Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP w/SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)


• Microsoft Flight Simulator X/SP2/Acceleration or Flight Simulator X Gold


• Dovetail Games FSX-SE


• Lockheed Martin Prepar3D v3, v4


• CPU 2.4 GHz or better


• 2 GB RAM minimum


• 512 MB DX9 or DX10 graphics card or better


• 29 MB space for download, 133 MB for installation

The Aerodrome Excavation Co. is the historical section of Team SDB and supports Help for Heroes.