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FS2004 Scenery--Hamat Z19O In Lebanon. Hamat is a village near the coast of Lebanon, around 25 miles north of Beirut. The airport runway was built during the civil war in the late 1970's to the west of Hamat. The intention was have an alternative to Beirut airport, which could be closed by shell fire from any or all of the sides involved in the civil war, or by bombing by those who were not directly part of the civil war but participated occasionally. It has been used for drag racing, freefall parachuting, and is now an army base with mostly helicopter use. The runway is around 5600 feet of asphalt, 90 feet wide and aligned 02/20. There is no lighting. The apron is set well back from the runway and has hangars at each end; four at one end and three at the other. There are also the remains of some radar to the west of the apron, bombed (in 1982?). The surrounding landclass is modified to reduce one village to its approximate actual size and to create a second village which was missing entirely. An intrusive road is deleted, and the airfield grass area modified. The AI includes a small Cessna liaison aircraft and there are modified textures for this and the original notes to help you locate it. By Roger Wensley.