ASIA 3

LATITUDE & LONGITUDE: 35.77, 140.38
CONTINENT: Asia
COUNTRY: Japan
AREA: Tokyo
PLACE: RJAA Tokyo International Airport
AIRCRAFT: McDonnell Douglas 500E
LIVERY: Misc

Tokyo is the capital and most populous prefecture of Japan. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central Pacific coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. Tokyo is the political and economic center of the country, as well as the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the national government. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.393 million residents as of 2020. Narita serves the Greater Tokyo Area, 60 kilometers (37 mi) east of central Tokyo in Narita, Chiba. In 2018, Narita had 33.4 million international passengers and 2.2 million tons of international cargo. Its 4,000-meter (13,123 ft) main runway is the longest runway in Japan. There are three air traffic control towers at Narita. The Museum of Aeronautical Science is located on the south side of Narita Airport and has several aircraft on exhibit, including a NAMC YS-11 and some small piston aircraft.

The McDonnell Douglas 500E brochure can be found here: www.mdhelicopters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/500E-Brochure.pdf The MD 500 series features shock-absorbing landing skid struts, a turboshaft engine mounted at a 45-degree angle toward the rear of the cabin pod, a fuel tank cell under the floor and the battery in the nose. The engine exhaust port is located at the end of the cabin pod underneath the tailboom. It has a short-diameter main rotor system and a short tail, which gives it an agile control response and also makes it less susceptible to weather-cocking. It had a distinctive atypical teardrop-shaped fuselage, a feature that sometimes led to personnel referring to it as the “flying egg”. The Hughes 500 / MD 500 series can be traced back to the early 1960s and the issuing of a requirement for a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) for the United States Army. The 500D was replaced by the 500E from 1982 with a pointed nose and various interior improvements, such as greater head and legroom. The 530F was a more powerful version of the 500E optimized for hot and high work, being furnished with an enlarged main rotor and more powerful Allison 250-C30 engine, capable of producing up to 425 hp. 

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The 500E comes with 63 liveries; download the Excel workbook or a PDF of the complete list. Screenshots are below.
https://flightsimpics.com/content/msfs-500e-liveries.pdf
https://flightsimpics.com/content/msfs-500e-liveries.xlsx