Detailed Small Airports - Default 2024 Scenery

Bomber_12th

Bomber_12th

SOH-CM-2023
I've been finding over time that there are a number of very detailed, hand-crafted small airports in MSFS 2024 which aren't present in 2020. These often have custom-made hangars (some even with signs/logos matching the flight schools located at the airfield), and many hand-placed small details not found in any of the standard default airports. All of them have some connection to gliders/soaring, but most also have a standard GA presence as well. Those I've discovered so-far in the US include:

42B Goodspeed - Connecticut
40I (Red) Stewart - Ohio
20H9 Caesar Creek - Ohio
KSYN Stanton - Minnesota
S36 Grier - Washington
CA84 Torrey Pines - California
4NY8 Harris Hill - New York
87MO Richters - Missouri
K34 Gardner Mun - Kansas
H07 Highland-Winet - Illinois
3IL1 Silver Creek - Illinois
50M Puckett - Tennessee
1CD4 Eagle Soaring - Colorado
33V Walden-Jackson County - Colorado

Here are screenshots to illustrate some of these - all default 2024 scenery.

K34 Gardner Mun, Kansas:




42B Goodspeed, Connecticut:


40I Red Stewart, Ohio:


50M Puckett, Tennessee:



CA84 Torrey Pines, California:


KSYN Stanton, Minnesota (a primary training field during WWII, still with its original 1940s combined hangar and control tower):



H07 Highland-Winet, Illinois:


S36 Grier, Washington:
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read (somewhere) that developers could submit updated airports or sceneries directly to Asobo and they would implement them into the sim. As time goes on, more and more enhanced airports would become default.
 
There's a new tool, World Hub, that lets community members update airports, and some of these were incorporated. But when I played around with the 2020 version, it only allowed updates to the airport layout and addition of default objects; there was no facility for adding new 3D models, textures with flight school names, etc. like you're seeing in Bomber_12th's screenshots. People were complaining that it doesn't even support many stock MSFS airport elements. So I doubt these airports came from World Hub.
 
Since all of these airports have a glider/soaring aspect to them, I suspect they were included to help bolster the increased focus on gliders/soaring in 2024 (along with the increased number of gliders, improvements to flight dynamics, weather, and thermal dynamics). I know Stanton was already detailed this way on day 1 of the 2024 release, since it was the very first airport I loaded, and I fully suspect all of the others were too. To find more that may have been covered, I've been using this map of popular glider airports in the US: https://www.ssa.org/where-to-fly-map-2/ - most, but not all of the ones I've checked have been given this level of detail.
 
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