About This File
FS2004 Scenery--Edmonton City Centre (CYXD), Alberta, Canada, v1. This is a modified V1 version of CYXD, that deals with scenery texture errors. Edmonton is in central Alberta, Canada. The City Centre airport has had other names (Edmonton Municipal, Blatchford Field) and was the first licensed airfield in Canada, in 1929. The history of aviation in northern Canada would not be complete if Edmonton was not included as a chapter in its own right. Unfortunately progress takes little notice of past glory and CYXD has now been closed. This version for FS2004 has in the AI a 737 of Western Pacific, an airline that became Canadian Airlines in a merger in 1987. So let us say it is CYXD in the middle eighties, or maybe more recently in the middle nineties with a vintage 737 being used for short haul to Calgary for sentimental reasons. In fact all scheduled flights were stopped in 1995, with the field being used for GA, charter flights, and medical evacuations etc since then. Many of the surrounding buildings are included as the airport really is surrounded by, and is part of, the neighbourhood. By Roger Wensley.