Catalina Isle

[Terry]

Did anyone ever do a Catalina Island 1931 scenery for FS9?

 

[Mick]

I don't think so, but I wish someone would!

What a great addition it would be for Golden Wings!

 

[Motormouse]

Bill Lyons possibly wiith his Grumman Goose package?

Ttfn

Pete

 

[Rallymodeller]

One is included with CalClassics' California 1959/1962 scenery.

 

[Volker Böhme]

Hi,

without wasting any time on looking things up: The aircraft types are pesumably Douglas Dolphin and Loening Air Yacht? Or any other idea?

Best regards,
Volker

 

[tgibson]

Hi,

Yes, that's what they are.

http://catalinagoose.homestead.com/wilmingtoncatalina.html

 

[Terry]

Hi,

Yes, that's what they are.

http://catalinagoose.homestead.com/wilmingtoncatalina.html

Thanks Tom, great photos. I never realized that was a turntable, I thought they were push around by hand.

 

[Bill Kestell]

Speaking strictly of aircraft, we have a nice Douglas Dolphin in FSX ... and those Loening Air Yachts bringing up the rear ... I'D KILL FOR ONE IN FSX!!!

If anyone, freeware or payware did this those of us flying in the 30s would jump on it in a heartbeat.

I fly CNAC/Eurasia in China and I NEED A LOENING!!!

 

[tgibson]

Hi,

The CalClassic scenery is the new airport, not this old one. We do have a small beach area south of Avalon that we scenicked, but I think this old airport was north of the town?

 

[srgalahad]

Hi,

The CalClassic scenery is the new airport, not this old one. We do have a small beach area south of Avalon that we scenicked, but I think this old airport was north of the town?

Correct Tom. It was at Hamilton Cove

William Wrigley, Jr. played an instrumental role in the history of Catalina Island. He bought controlling interest in the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919 and with the company he received the island for free. Wrigley improved the island with public utilities, new steamships, a hotel, the Casino building, and extensive plantings of trees, shrubs and flowers.*^
In 1921 Wrigley moved the Spring Training site of his professional ball club, the Chicago Cubs, to Catalina. That same year, he also purchased the Los Angeles Angels who he would build another Wrigley Field for in South Los Angeles (1925).

Hamilton Cove is now a major condo development

Very good reference here (Scroll down about 1/3 of page): http://waterandpower.org/museum/Aviation_in_Early_LA.html

 

[srgalahad]

The other good source of info is the excellent "Abandoned and Little-known airports site:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_PacificIslands.htm

According to Chris Bell, “The seaplane base terminal building remained there until the late 1960s.
There was actually a family that lived in the building for several years.
The hangar building was moved up to the Airport in the Sky to be used as a hangar facility there.
That hangar is still being used today [2011].


Simmers on the "dark side" (FSX) do have the Hamilton Cove scenery included in the Golden Age Simulations Dolphin package (payware)
http://www.goldenagesimulations.com/douglas-dolphin-rd-fsx.html

 

[Scale Dail]

If there was a Loening or Dolphin for our beloved FS9, I would have made a simple one using existing structures, but there is nothing to fly to it.
1931 is just my era right now. It's taking a while to finish Wiley and Gatty's round the world flight.