Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (KDVT) - Arizona
The City of Phoenix purchased the airport in 1971 for use as a reliever airport for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A second runway was added in 1976, and the airport has evolved into the busiest general aviation airport in the country.
The Airport offers a complete range of services including fueling, avionics repair, maintenance, parts, flight training, new and used aircraft sales, and aircraft rentals. Cutter Aviation is its fixed-based operator and the airport is home to nearly 1,100 aircraft. The Airport encompasses approximately 914 acres of property and is located 15 miles north of downtown Phoenix near the intersection of Interstate 17 and Loop 101.
Version 1.0:
After the last 5.0 World update, Deer Valley Airport texture was ruined with a single texture. This mod fixes a number of things and cleans up the airport and surrounding area. Please let me know if theres anything that might need improvement or has changed in real life. Im happy to spruce up any pesonal area or FBO you like to fly out of, just ask in the comments.
- Removed the lake that covered the landfill nearby!
- Fixes, adds and removes taxilights. Unfortunately don't know, or have the ability to individually place lights.
- Removed or greatly reduced cars driving on taxi and runway. Added car paths to avoid having to drive down runway. Unfortunately don't have ability to choose what vehicles spawn or in what spots.
- Added night lighting.
- Three Helicopter pad spawn points, H1 furthest South spawn, H2 furthest East spawn
- Added large parking spots for planes like CJ4s infront of main terminal.
- Added surrounding chainlink fence.
Known bugs:
If request taxi to parking while already in parking, ATC will give you a path but you won't have the option to repeat back commands. Normal ATC taxi commands work fine.
Open cover hangars have invisible collision walls that had to be blocked off.
Future Plans:
2.0 Replace the Main Terminal, ATC building, Cutter buildings, flight schools and Civil Air Patrol building with custom made 3D buildings.
3.0 Add newest runup areas and newly made Delta taxiway. Update A, B, and C Taxiways.
Installation:
Unzip and insert phoenix-airport-kdvt-deervalley file into your community folder.
Other Arizona mods:
Chandler Municipal Airport (KCHD)
Look for me flying around Phoenix in game: Henry Morgan
Follow me on twitch to see what Im working on currently. I only stream when I'm working on airports.
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4 months ago
Aspirany
9 months ago
Keithdouglass
9 months ago
Keithdouglass
Very nicely done. My only complaint is there seems to be a big FPS hit landing/departing KDVT with this loaded vs. vanilla.
2 years ago
Ok, I can look at replacing some static planes for parking spots or just reducing some assets in general. It was my first airport and one I learned everything editing on, so I'm sure there's some optimizing I can do. Hopefully it doesn't have to do with the taxiway lights I just updated.
2 years ago
RadioMan234
VoodooKarate
Awesome, thank you!
2 years ago
PUA687
Great work! My home airport and just the addition of the run-up areas was a great addition to realism. Awesome progress on all the other areas as well!
2 years ago
Next will be the new delta taxiway. Do you know if the construction has been completed? I rely on google maps but the satellite imagery isn't that new. I've noticed airport diagrams have already been updated but not sure if its operable yet. Any idea?
2 years ago
RadioMan234
adl320
Hi When I Download The File It Sayes 1.1 Instead Of The 1.2 You Advertise. 8 )
2 years ago
There's a second file listed that's 124KB -- that's the new one. The old one is labeled as the "default" when it should be renamed or deleted.
2 years ago
DennyAtkin
HeroicalyInsane
Can confirm it works for SU8. Still a nice place and keep up the good work!
2 years ago
Sonosusto
Great work. The color, hangars, all of it. Look forward to future updates. I don't really mind the static planes with AIG as it uses mostly airliners anyway and this airport is for GA. This is such a cool place to fly into. The default from Asobo was pretty bad before you got to it. Thanks again.
2 years ago
Sonosusto
Nice work. Scottsdale is calling you ........
2 years ago
Spud59
AWSEOME!!! Looks great thank you! Any chance you could update Phoenix PDs hangar?
2 years ago
Sorry for the late reply, just getting back into the sim after a fresh PC install. Are you looking for a more detailed look and what not? How are the parking spots? I can connect them to the taxiways so there more usable. Hopefully there will be more helicopter support soon. Let me know what you looking for or any suggestions for little things I can add or change. Also is the ATC tower missing for anyone? It seems to be gone now as if they removed the asset or changed the file name in an update. :/
2 years ago
RadioMan234
Hollywood5772
Nice airport, can you do gyr
3 years ago
Ya, seems like a small simple enough airport that looks like fun fixing up. The airport is definitely in shambles right now and just about nothing looks right at all. For time sake, I won't do anything too fancy like custom 3d buildings, but I can for sure get this is a nice working order, cleaned up, add hangars, adds lights. It could be awhile though as I only have the weekends to really work on these kind of projects and I'll be making this along side Chandler Airport.
3 years ago
RadioMan234
Southwest5261
Very Nice. Do you know of anyone who is doing Chandler Airport? Or do you have an interest in it?
3 years ago
I can clean up alot of the random cars and repaint the lines and taxiway paths. Straighten up the runways, add lights. Thankfully the ground textures look decent and shouldn't need redoing. It would be a little while because of how big it is, and I would probably work on this alongside with KGYR. What kind of stuff did you really notice that you would like fixed?
3 years ago
RadioMan234
jcoops
Excellent job! Thank you....just move to the area last year and hoping to get re-certify at KDVT soon.
3 years ago
dvlcreations
Nice work! Looking forward to version 2 with custom buildings.
3 years ago
Boss1