Flight Simulator Experiences for Sebring, Florida

Where The Simulator Is

1. Book an hour

   $40 for 60 minutes on the booking page. Ages 8 and up.

2. Drive to the lounge

   1421 Massaro Blvd, Tampa. Open Friday and Saturday 2 to 10 PM; Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 12 to 9 PM; Sunday 12 to 6 PM. Closed Tuesday.

3. Tell us you want Sebring

   Give staff the airport code KSEF and we set it up in Free Flight.

From B-17 Base To Race Track

Sebring Regional Airport started life as Hendricks Field, a World War II training base for B-17 Flying Fortress crews.

The first B-17s arrived in January 1942, and at its busiest the field handled thousands of takeoffs and landings a week. The base closed at the end of 1945 and was handed to the City of Sebring in 1946.

A few years later the old runways found a second life. The first sports car endurance race was run on the airfield on New Year's Eve 1950, and the first 12 Hours of Sebring followed in 1952. Sebring International Raceway still sits right next to the airport today.

Can You Fly Into Sebring Regional Airport In A Flight Simulator?

Yes. Sebring Regional (KSEF) is in our simulator's worldwide airport database, so you can take off from it or fly in and land.

The real airport has two runways, 01/19 and 14/32, and no control tower. Here are a few ways to spend your hour there. These are simulated flights for fun, not flight training.

• A lap around Sebring. Take off in a Cessna 172, circle the airport and the raceway next door, and land.
• Sebring to Tampa. Fly the route you just drove, then land at Tampa International or Peter O. Knight.
• Raceway flyover. Bring the F/A-18 Super Hornet low over the track, then climb out in afterburner.
• Try it in bad weather. Same airport at sunset, at night or in a storm. Switch any time.

See every aircraft on the planes page and the other ways to fly on the experiences page.

Here For The Racing?

Academy also works in Sebring on the racing side. We built and installed a racing simulator at Sebring Motor Garages & Townhomes, a private clubhouse amenity for its members. That one is a racing sim, not a flight sim, and it isn't open to the public.

If you drive the track, our Sebring corner-by-corner guide and the Tampa racing lounge are the racing side of the same building as the flight sim. You can book both on the same visit.