An airfield is a DCS map airfield marked with a Tycoon tent. It neither produces nor consumes cargo. Players use it to store cargo of every kind and to build two airfield Projects. Airplanes can land there, so it is where the C-130J-30 hands cargo over to helicopters.

An airfield accepts every cargo, Food and raw cargo included. Unload anywhere within 500 m of the Tycoon tent: your aircraft's position counts, not where the crates come to rest.

On the ground, crates are placed behind your aircraft, both when you unload and when you take cargo out of Storage. Further than 500 m from the tent, a Storage request is refused.

All cargo at an airfield shares one storage limit:

• Full storage: further deliveries are refused. The crate stays on the ground (see Restarts).
• Taking cargo out: Tycoon > My Location > Storage returns stored cargo as ordinary crates and frees their place at once. The menu shows the fill level as Stored x/y.
• Food stored at an airfield supplies no Settlement until it is flown on.
• Round trips: a crate taken out and unloaded at the same airfield again does not count as a delivery.

An airfield has two build sites with no Trust, supply or level requirement. Projects are paid from its storage, so without a Cargo Warehouse a level costing 8 crates needs an otherwise empty storage.

Costs are listed under Projects.

The C-130J-30 carries up to 24 crates but cannot land on a helipad. It works a pad site from up to 80 m away instead - taking crates out of Storage, loading them and delivering them all use that same distance - and an airfield from within 500 m of the tent. It can therefore deliver straight to a Hub, City or Factory whenever it can park that close to the pad.

An airfield is still the natural hub for a full load: 24 crates rarely match one destination's needs, and helicopters fly the last leg faster.

• Deliver Cargo
• Build a Project

• Cargo
• Aircraft
• Projects
• Radio Menu