Aerosoft has recently released their rendition of The Airport of the Golfe of Saint Tropez (LFTZ), serving the commune of Saint-Tropez, France, with a yearly average of 7,000 to 10,000 passengers.
It was built in 1964 by Count François Gazeau and Marc Den Bosch as a strip of land stretching between the then national road and the river. The land belonged to Charles Boyer de Fonscolombe, who agreed to rent it out to François and Marc in memory of Saint-Exupéry, who happened to be one of his close cousins.
In the early 1980s, Charles Boyer entrusted the airport’s operation to a management company, which further developed the airport in the 1990s to provide the region with an adequately structured airport.
In that same decade, the runway was made public after an agreement with the state, remaining open 365 days a year for daylight operations only.
A new passenger terminal was built in 1995, significantly increasing the passenger handling capabilities and adding a bar.
It’s mostly a general aviation airport, which accounts for most of its yearly aircraft movements.
The scenery features an accurate rendition of the airport, with revised lighting, PBR reflections, custom ortophoto, custom vegetation, weather effects for wet, snow, and ice, revised autogen, reworked static aircraft (togglable), and more.
It’s available on the Aerosoft Shop for roughly $13.64, requiring at least 1.9 GB of free hard disk space to install.
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