Here’s a quick answer.

Certain types weren’t allocated specific letters, nor were manufacturers.

The current system began with just numbers until the number 10000 was reached. From 1916 serials started having letter prefixes, starting with A1. When Z9999 was reached in 1940, the next sequence began, namely two letters and three digits and it began with AA100. This sequence continues today, although in 2004 a decision was taken not to start with 100 each time a new sequence began and so Merlin ZK001 will appear shortly.

Currently the sequence is running in the ZK… range, although personalised serials can now be allocated (ZZ171-174 being C-17s, for example).

Until recently ‘black-out’ blocks were issued to confuse matters. These were blocks of serials deliberately not allocated to any airframe. This practice has now been stopped.

You’ll need a paint programme of some sort and DXTBMP by Martin Wright. The latter can be found here:
http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/

Using layers (as, for example, in Photoshop or Paintshop Pro) works best because you can edit/delete to your heart’s content without altering the base textures.

Try Beef Island (TUPJ) – if you’ve seen the Caribbean Props Osprey book you’ll know what I mean!

Others to try:
Rio Amazonas (SESM)
Portland NAS (EGDP)
St Barthelemy (TFFJ)
Bhojpur (VNBJ)
Saba (SABA)
Paro (VQPR)

I’m certain some of these cannot possibly be true to life. SESM is probably the biggest challenge but as real as it gets? Probably not.

[Portland isn’t far off how it really is but then very few fixed wing aircraft have ever landed there.]

How about this 727 in Brazil?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/614005/L/

By the way, there was another low flying B-17 shot on here a few weeks ago but I can’t find it now. Vould it be posted again?

Not sure of the answer here but there’s a very active forum for this and other titles here:
http://www.visualflight.co.uk/forums/

I’ve found one for FS2004 – sprgoo04.zip on flightsim.com and also one for FS98 but sadly no joy on FS2002.

🙁

British Airports by Just Flight was originally done by Gary Summons of UK2000 scenery and I’ve checked his site (see here:http://www.uk2000scenery.com/) and Abingdon is not included, nor is it in the default sim.

I’ve checked on flightsim.com and avsim.com and Abingdon isn’t listed there either!

One final check: I ran AFCAD2 and can’t find Abingdon listed so I’ve now drawn a blank.

I know it’s a bit late for a campaign to put honesty back into advertising, but a promotional push along the lines of – “Here’s a load of Spitfire variants we produced ourselves to a quality standard varying from not bad to indifferent” isn’t going to do much for sales, but at least it would be honest.

What a nice idea … and how wonderful if we could get all software publishers to go along with a bit of honesty?

Trouble is that we do need *all* to take this idea on board and the standard across the board seems to be hype it up. In that respect JF are certainly not the worst offender …