I'll try to keep this FSX forum alive by posting here some screenshots of orphaned aircrafts I like, FSX native projects made by talented designers, unfortunately unfinished, and now hard or impossible to find.
Here's the ShinMaywa US-2 by Team FS KBT, both from Japan. FSX native but no VC and no landing gear (so sad about this missing gear animation thing, can't this be fixed with McX? The gears are there in the model. Or maybe Hiroaki or Daisuke has a working version stashed somewhere?). I fly her with default B747 VC (grey version), yes I know that's a sin, but it has 4 throttle levers, and glass cockpit looks similar to the real one, not to mention almost correct height from ground level. Download link here (scroll down a bit):
https://viperhiro.wordpress.com/category/shinmaywa/
Here's de Havilland Vampire FB5-9 by Igor Suprunov, wonderful exterior with many HD textures, but sold with no VC (can't find it online anymore). I fly it with Bob Richardson's Vampire cockpit, which is very nice too, but has only low resolution textures unfortunately. Igor was a real A319 pilot, made some great models (Yak 40) but lost his life too early in a glider accident.
Catalina photoreal by Aerosoft with Hamilton Cove scenery by GAS & FranceVFR Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur.