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Supporter perks
Project Airports is free to play - the free game is the whole game. Supporter is a one-time, pay-what-you-want contribution that funds servers and development, and from $25 it unlocks a permanent kit of in-sim perks.
What Supporter is
Head to /supporter and pick any amount from $1 to $5,000 (presets at $5, $25, and $50), paid via Stripe or PayPal. It even works without an account - perks attach to your email and land when you sign up.
Any amount
Every contribution, whatever the size, earns the Supporter role on the community Discord. Link your Discord account and the role follows.
The $25 kit
At $25 and above, the full in-sim kit unlocks permanently:
| Perk | What you get |
|---|---|
| Aeros grant | Ⓐ25,000 one-time |
| Double object slots | ×2 at every airport level - 20 / 50 / 100 on current levels |
| Free landmarks | Two, lifetime, at any price - including the uncapped world icons |
| Supporters Kit decor shelf | Air-racing challenge gates and four styles of live airport welcome sign |
| Livery Workshop network and capacity | The fully synced livery network: fly any published community livery in your sim, by subscription or one whole-catalog toggle. Plus 5 extra hangar bays and unlimited publishes |
| Build-queue priority | Your builds are claimed before standard ones |
| Raised daily earn cap | Ⓐ2,500 /day instead of Ⓐ1,000 /day |
Supporter welcome signs come in Modern, Backcountry, Country and City styles, with ten recent visitors, supporter badges, rankings, overhead lighting and a QR code to your airport page. Select a placed sign and choose its style in object settings. Existing classic signs stay in place, but are no longer offered in the catalogue. Replace yours whenever you are ready. Use companion 1.3.17 or later for the new live display.
The Livery Workshop at /portal/workshop is free for every pilot who has verified their sim with one real flight: a 3D paint booth staged in a hangar at your own airport, where you paint right on the aircraft and pay a Paint Bill in Aeros when you publish, and every published livery joins the community network. What Supporters add is the receiving side and room: the whole network flyable in your own sim (free pilots receive only their own paint), 5extra Hangar Bays on top of the free ladder, and unlimited publishes instead of the free tier's 4 a day.
Why it works this way
Nothing in the kit is gameplay you can't reach for free - everything else in the manual, from claiming land to landmarks, is earnable with Aeros from flying. Supporting simply lets you go big faster, and it keeps the servers and the development moving. If the project has earned a coffee from you, this is the tip jar.