The X-Plane Scenery Gateway

Develop Airport Scenery for X‑Plane

Together we can build something truly spectacular, and have a lot of fun along the way

Looking for a creative and fun way to unleash your inner artist? You've come to the right place! Here you can find the tools and methods needed to create stunning looking 3D airports for the X-Plane flight simulator. Submit your finished airport to this Gateway and see it included in a future release of X-Plane for thousands of people to enjoy!

Start off with a small regional airport and work your way up to a mega international! You don't need to know Blender or Sketchup. Our World Editor (WED) tool is simple to use and provides a fast method of placing runways, taxiways, ramps, pavement, pre-fabricated or custom buildings and much more, on top of the included ortho-imagery.

Watch your airport take shape in your own copy of X-Plane as you develop it. When it's ready – submit it to the Gateway and we'll check it, approve it for inclusion on X-Plane or let you know what revisions are needed for that to happen.

1. Register on the Gateway as an Artist

The first step is to create your user account, that you will use to log in both on this Gateway and from WED when you submit your sceneries.

Create my user account

2. Download and install WED

Download World Editor and install it on your computer. It is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.

Download World Editor (WED) WED manual

3. Create and submit your first scenery!

Start off with a small airport you know well and improve it, adding ground markings, taxiways, a tower, hangars... Here you have all the resources to get you started, including a video tutorial series from Gateway Artist Jan Vogel that is a great resource for scenery artists of all experience levels.

Start here Video tutorials Advanced documentation

Information about creating scenery for the upcoming X-Plane 12