MM Simulations has recently released their rendition of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (EDFH) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024, the low-cost oriented gateway to the Rhineland.

Hahn dates back to the early 1950s when it was founded by occupying French forces and taken over by the USAF a year later, where it initially hosted the 7356th Air Base Group, responsible for improving the facilities and getting it into an operational state. The USAF used the Hahn Air Base until the early 1990s, when it was handed over to Germany.

The German government decided to transform the Air Base into a civil airport to alleviate the traffic at Frankfurt International Airport.

Nowadays, the airport averages around 1.3 million passengers yearly, served by Ryanair or WizzAir, the two low-cost giants operating in Hahn. The Irish carrier offers seventeen fixed destinations (and fifteen seasonals), and the Hungarian sports eight destinations.

As a curiosity, Frankfurt-Hahn recently filed for bankruptcy and was sold to a new investor in mid-2022, which ended up not transferring the funds. Now they have signed two preliminary contracts with two new potential buyers, one of them being no more, no less than the owner of the Nürburgring.

The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with handcrafted terrain elevation, updated satellite imagery, a detailed 3D terminal, an accurate ground layout, custom ground textures, and more.

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It’s available on Contrail for roughly $19.87, requiring at least 1.2 GB of free hard disk space to install.

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