Ruby Airport (PARY) v1.1.0
Iditarod checkpoint #12
Population 187 — Gold was discovered here in 1907, but no town was established until until 1911 when additional gold deposits were discovered on Long Creek, causing a rush of prospectors to the area. Ruby was home for many of the mushers who carried mail for the Northern Commercial Company from Tanana to Ruby. The trip took four days and paid $5.00 a day. Dog team mail ended here in 1931. The checkpoint is in town, at the community hall.
Ruby Airport is one of 24 airstrips and airports on the Iditarod Trail that runs from Anchorage to Nome. The Iditarod Airforce is a group of pilots who volunteer their time and planes to service the 24 race checkpoints. Their missions include delivering food for the teams, picking up injured sled dogs, and many other logistical services for the volunteers who manage the checkpoints.
In the future, I hope to build a Bush Trip that follows the entire Iditarod Trail from Anchorage to Nome, about 1,000 miles. However, after this one, there are another 4 air strips and airports that I will need to develop and add to the sim. I am trying to acurately represent them all using aerial photos and images I find on the internet and from the data on the AirNav and SkyVector web sites.
Airport Information:
AirNav: PARY
FAA Identifier: RBY
Installation
Copy the tn-airport-pary-ruby folder inside of the WinRAR file into your MSFS Community folder.
Many thanks to Fisherman Dave, and trfsto for making their libraries available to add interesting content to these airports.
GPS Coordinates: 64.72726192003165, -155.4701271658957
