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For Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Version 1.1

By Terry Boissel     2016

RAF Balderton is a former Royal Air Force station located 2.0 miles (3.2 km) south of Newark-on-Trent, sandwiched between the now extinct Great Northern Railway (GNR) Bottesford-Newark line and the A1 road in Nottinghamshire, England.
Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces. During the war it was used primarily as a troop carrier transport airfield and after for munitions storage before it was closed in 1957.
With the facility released from military control, Balderton was returned to agriculture, the runway concrete disappearing as hardcore under the  AI road improvements of the 1960s. At that time, the developed Al was routed west of the original road, over the eastern perimeter track of the airfield, before coming back to the east to bypass Balderton village and Newark.
Gypsum open-pit mining has also taken its toll where quarrying has completely obliterated the airfield, with single track roads all that remain of the runway and perimeter track, and the occasional concrete runway end or pile of rubble.
Today the remains of the airfield are located on private property being used as agricultural fields.
USAAF use
The airfield was officially taken over by Ninth Air Force on New Year's Day 1944. Balderton was used as a reception centre for C-47 troop carrier groups arriving from the United States that were subsequently located at other UK airfields. Balderton was known as USAAF Station AAF-482 for security reasons by the USAAF during the war, and by which it was referred to instead of location. Its USAAF Station Code was "BD".
437th Troop Carrier Group

The first USAAF transport unit to arrive was the 437th Troop Carrier Group during January 1944 from Baer Army Airfield, Indiana. The group's squadrons and fuselage codes were:
83d Troop Carrier Squadron (T2)
84th Troop Carrier Squadron (Z8)
85th Troop Carrier Squadron (90)
86th Troop Carrier Squadron (5K)

The 439th was a group of Ninth Air Force's 53d Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command.
The first aircraft arrived on 21 January. On 5/6 February 5 it was moved south to RAF Ramsbury in Wiltshire.
439th Troop Carrier Group  

On 21 February, the 91st and 92d Troop Carrier Squadrons for the 439th Troop Carrier Group also arrived from Baer Army Airfield. Two other squadrons, the 93d and 94th TCS arrived on 6 March. The group's squadrons and fuselage codes were:
91st Troop Carrier Squadron (L4)
92d Troop Carrier Squadron (J8)
93d Troop Carrier Squadron (3B)
94th Troop Carrier Squadron (D8)

The 439th was a group of Ninth Air Force's 50th Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command.
Intensive training with paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division was conducted until the 439th was moved to RAF Upottery in Devon on 26 April, although all elements did not move until May.
Subsequent RAF use
Balderton was returned to No. 5 Group RAF Bomber Command, at the end of September and the re-formed No. 227 Squadron RAF with Avro Lancasters flew its first mission from the airfield on 11 October 1944. The squadron (code 9J-) moved to RAF Strubby on 5 April 1945.
Having no operational usefulness to the RAF, from June 1945, bombs were stored on the runways. Like many wartime airfields, it languished unused with a little demolition until gradually disposed of in the 1950s. A notice in The Times for 20 May 1957 lists the airfield as one of those no longer needed by the RAF. Balderton was then sold by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).


Source: Wikipedia


I have followed the Bones Airfield directory system for coding UK Airfields the code for RAF Balderton is  X4BD. 

This scenery although as close as I can get with the sources open to me this scenery is a representation of RAF Balderton airfield. 


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: 
	
	ijpfsxobjects - 	by Ian Pearson
	dlwobects
	
	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
	Enclosures

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_Balderton_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