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Today in Flight Simulation News – November 8, 2026

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Flight Simulation developers shared news today, including an aircraft, airports, and scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, MSFS 2020, and X-Plane.

Simulation Daily publishes a roundup every day of all the news across the flight simulation field, helping you keep up to date with the ins and outs of the industry.

Before we move on to today’s flight simulation news, you can check out our video recapping last week’s stories.

Without further ado, I leave you with today’s flight simulation news.

U-2 for MSFS 2024 Gets Trailer Ahead of Release

Miltech Simulations released a trailer for its upcoming Lockheed U-2 Aircraft.

It’ll be released on November 13, 2026, so the wait won’t be long.

San Jose, California City Scenery Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020

Dfflyer Direct released a new city scenery for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020, portraying San Jose in California, US.

You can find it on Simmarket and the developer’s website starting at $7.99. It includes the following.

  • Handcrafted buildings across downtown San Jose
  • Detailed landmarks including San Jose City Hall, the Adobe headquarters, Tower 55, and The 88
  • Apple Park campus in Cupertino, including the ring building, Steve Jobs Theater, parking structures, and surrounding campus buildings
  • Landscaped Apple Park courtyard with custom terrain, paths, and vegetation
  • Detailed buildings along Almaden Boulevard
  • Enhanced night lighting and signage
  • High quality PBR textures
  • Performance-optimized models for smooth frame rates

Hervey Bay Airport for MSFS Gets New Screenshots

AuScene released new screenshots of models made for Hervey Bay Airport (YHBA) in Queensland, Australia. Specifically, we get a textured version of the models we saw a week ago.

For the moment, we don’t have a release date just yet.

If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.

If you want to go further back, we have a handy overview video of the major flight simulation news in the past week. You can watch it below. As usual, leaving a like and a comment and subscribing to our growing YouTube channel is extremely helpful.

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