Add a Missing Airport to MSFS 2024

MSFS streams the whole planet, but its airport database is still a database, and no database covers every airstrip on Earth. The usual gaps:

• Private and residential strips - farm strips, ranch runways, airpark taxiways. Many were never in the source data to begin with.
• New or rebuilt fields- anything opened, lengthened, or moved since the sim's data cut.
• Backcountry and seasonal strips - gravel bars and mountain strips that exist more in pilot knowledge than in official registries.
• Auto-generated placeholders - the airport exists in the sim but as a procedurally guessed layout: wrong runway surface, missing buildings, taxiways that were never there.

• Wait for a sim update. Free, occasionally works, entirely out of your hands. World updates improve regions over time, but a small private strip may never make the cut.
• Build it with the MSFS SDK.Full control and free with the sim, but you're signing up to learn scenery development - realistic for a hobbyist project, heavy for "I just want my strip back". Our overview of every route covers what that path looks like.
• Build it in your browser. The rest of this guide: claim the real plot in Project Airports, lay the field out to match reality, and let the build servers and companion app do the sim-side work.

1. 1Find the real spot on the claim map
   Open the claim mapand navigate to the actual location - it's real satellite imagery, so you can see the existing runway, windsock, and hangars if they're there. Claim the cell that contains the field. Your first claim is free.
2. 2Trace the field as it really is
   Lay the runway along the real one on the imagery - length, width, surface, and numbers. Add the taxiways and apron where they actually sit, then place hangars, fuel, tie-downs, and lighting from the catalog to match the site. The builder tour covers every tool.
3. 3Build and sync
   Click build; the servers compile a standard MSFS 2024 scenery package. Install the free companion app, and your field syncs into the sim - findable in Free Flight search like any other airport.
4. 4Fly it, then let it grow
   Spawn on your own pavement. From there the field is a living thing: edit whenever you like and the update syncs automatically, to you and to every other pilot flying the shared world.

One honest caveat: your field gets its own 3-6 character identifier rather than reusing the real-world code. Real ICAO codes are reserved to avoid colliding with the sim's own database - if the sim ever ships its version of the same field, two airports claiming one code ends badly. Pick something close (pilots usually riff on the real code or the field's name) and the airport name itself can be exactly the real one, which is what shows in search.