Fly 2 High has recently released their rendition of Tulsa International Airport (KTUL) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. The airport serves Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has a yearly average of 3.2 million passengers.

The airport opened nearly a hundred years ago, in 1928, as Tulsa Municipal Airport. Its initial infrastructure was rather rough, with a one-story wood and tar “terminal” and landing strips and taxiways made of mown grass. It was busy enough at the time to be the “busiest airport in the World,” handling nearly 10,000 passengers a month, somehow outpacing Croydon Airport in London, Berlin Tempelhof, and Paris Le Bourget.

In the early 1930s, Frederick Kershner designed a new terminal with an elegant Art Deco design, no more wood and tar. That building soldiered on until the 1950s, when the administration realized it was no longer sufficient for the traffic figures, leading to the construction of a new terminal in 1958.

The new – and much bigger – terminal opened in 1961, qualifying it to become an International airport two years later.

It hosted the 130th Fighter Wing in 1940 during the early stages of World War 2. Within a year of that, the War Department determined that Tulsa would become the site of an Air Force Plant, operated by Douglas Aircraft Corporation to manufacture and assemble bombers from 1942 to 1945.

A year after the war, American Airlines purchased two ex-Air Force hangars to start their maintenance facilities in Tulsa, where they had nonstop routes to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In the 1960s, McDonnell Douglas still used the Air Force Plant for aircraft maintenance. The lease ended in 1996, when Boeing acquired it for aerospace manufacturing.

The passenger terminal was renovated in the 2010s, designed by Gensler and Benham Companies. The ceilings were raised, passenger waiting areas were improved, and the gates were redesigned.

It’s a hub for Omni Air International and Allegiant Air, American Airlines, American Eagle, Delta Air Lines, Delta Connection, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and United Express serve it.

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The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with a high-quality terminal model and its respective interior, custom jetways, custom taxiway labels, custom ground markings, and more.

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It’s available on SimMarket (2020 / 2024) for roughly $21.63, requiring at least 2.87 GB of free hard disk space to install.

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