Nestled between the city of Boston and the birthplace of a nation, Hanscom Field is 20 mi outside of Logan Airport in Boston, located at the apex of 4 towns, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln and Lexington.  A fighter training base in WWII, Hanscom Field made its name as a computing and radar development base for the Air Force, and is still active in that capacity, though in a much smaller way than it used to be.  Centered in the Technology Belt around Boston, it has been home to organizations such as MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Draper Labs, Raytheon and many other companies.  With two runways 7000 and 5200 ft in length, it can easily handle aircraft as large as the C-5, and was a base of operations for the US Air Force Military Airlift Command along with Westover Air Base for a time.

Now that the US Air Force has reduced it's operations here, it is also the largest General Aviation airport in Massachusets, and is considered a feeder airport for Logan airport.  It has hosted scheduled airline flight operations off and on since the '80's.  Southern Airways decided to switch operations from KYHA Hyannis to KBED and KACK as of the end of May, 2021.  As an Air Force base close to Boston, it often hosts the President of the United States and many other luminaries, such as the Beatles in 1964 when they played the old Boston Garden for their first tour in the United States.  You'll note the "red carpet" on the US Air Force portion of the ramp at the end of the taxiway.

I absolutely LOVE seeing all the live air traffic at this airport now, try flying between morning and 7 Eastern time and you should see a bunch of live traffic if you turn Live Traffic option on.

A brief history of Hanscom Air Force Base 

This is a pretty major update.  I've updated the taxiways to the latest configuration as shown on the current charts, updated the taxi signs as best I can without visiting yet, fixed up all the taxiway lines to the latest images, including adding a facsimile of the new Customs/Fire Station building and parking by the tower.  I've added more parking, updated the configuration of parking on the East and West ramps as it is today, added lights as best I can figure out, and redid the taxi lights as well.  I didn't find any taxilights on the tarmac, but, essentially E, G, and R taxiways had no lighting in general.  Got rid of the building on the cargo "hot run up" pad and added the blast shields to it.  I've added some eye candy and spruced up the surrounding area a bit.  I also added the Jet Aviation hangar to the southwest side of the West Ramp, as well as the taxiway markings on Echo and Tango around Sierra and Juliet.

I've taken this as far as I can from Google Earth.  For those who fly out of Bedford, let me know if you find any other discrepancies.  I'll be visiting soon, my mom still lives in Bedford, East Coast Aero club has a PA28 there I'd like to rent, and I work nearby.  I'm sure after I visit I'll figure out a lot more details I'll want to add.

To install this scenery just copy scenery-ma-flyingscool-kbed directory contained in this zip-file into your Community directory. You can also install the z_scenery-flyingscool-livingworld-medapt package if you'd like to see more realistic traffic at this and other GA airports.  Problem is, this package will affect ALL your airports, so if you like seeing Bus and Firetruck and Loader traffic at your airports, DON'T install the separate Living World Config package.  The Airport package does not depend on it and it's totally optional. Play with it, see how you like it.

v0.2.0 6/2/2023 - Pretty big update.

   - Corrected the content of the taxiway signs on the west side of the West Ramp.\r\n
   - Fixed some issues introduced with SU5
   - Updated for SU12
   - Added a Heliport at the Boston Med Flight hangar
   - Tons more detail added. I haven't said it before, but got the taxiway lighting done. Opened up taxiway N. Added more detail to the parking including listing many of the airlines that visit KBED at the gates and Signature ramp parking spots to get flights to park there. I removed the Living World Config setup that used to be in the package and created a separate package for it so users can install it separately if they so desire.  Cleaned it and the Services config file up. See separate Readme on installing the LivingWorld Config package.

v0.1.3 7/11/2021 - Added Jet Aviation hangar and surrounding area and removed the hangar that was removed in 2016 (so some of the pictures here are a little out of date). Continued to add more detail to the West Ramp.  Added taxiway direction markings to Central Echo and Tango around Juliet and Sierra and Customs.  Added more detail to East Ramp

v0.1.0 7/9/2021 - Initial Release

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Most additions to the scenery are default objects delivered by ASOBO with the MSFS package.
I often use objects from the following libraries and you will want to install the following object library packages. The ones I've starred are used in this package (though I may have forgotten I've used others):

*FISD - https://files.fsnordic.net/fisd-library-for-msfs2020
*Windy Things - https://flightsim.to/file/14024/windy-things
*SDR Scenery Pack V1.1 - https://flightsim.to/file/6072/sdr-scenery-pack-v1-0
*colin J's object library - https://flightsim.to/file/16007/msfs-object-library-with-150-models-ranging-from-towers-hangers-terminals-to-cones
*Delta Tango's Camper Library - https://flightsim.to/file/12386/camper-library
*Cede69's static aircraft library - https://flightsim.to/file/14422/static-aircraft-library
*Wombiiactual ENxx Asset pack - https://flightsim.to/file/12208/wombiiactual-enxx-asset-pack
*Emerald Object Library - https://flightsim.to/file/8824/emerald-object-library
*Mikea.at AssetPack - https://flightsim.to/file/1923/mikea-at-assetpack
*dantesmante's Reno Stead Airport - https://flightsim.to/file/11837/reno-stead-airport-krts-reno-air-races
EGOV RAF Valley custom built - https://flightsim.to/file/9361/egov-raf-valley-custom-built
totof aircraft library - https://flightsim.to/file/17182/totof-aircraft-library-v1-1
*totof object library - https://flightsim.to/file/17179/totof-library-object-v1-1
JHScenery Master Library - https://flightsim.to/file/8157/jhscenery-master-library
TurtleTank's Objects Library - https://flightsim.to/file/13290/turtletank-s-scenery-developer-objects-and-material-library
*Dave's Hi-res Library - https://flightsim.to/file/15769/dave-s-higher-res-crooked-library
Dave's Crooked Library - https://flightsim.to/file/4696/dave-s-crooked-library
Dave's Seaplane Object Library - https://flightsim.to/file/5806/fisherman-dave-s-seaplane-base-object-library
Dave's 3D People Library - https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library
EDHK Lights and Objects - https://flightsim.to/file/2549/edhk-lights-pack

 Looks good in FS2024 to me...