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Testors' speculative 1980s F-19 model-kit concept supplied the shape for VSKYLABS' X-Plane aircraft. The developer assigned the fictional fighter a flight envelope, systems and basic simulated weapons. Its handling is a simulator interpretation without a real F-19 flight-test record.
Aircraft background
VSKYLABS · Read more ↗WLV holds an attitude
Despite its abbreviation, the developer describes WLV as an attitude-hold mode: it keeps the selected pitch and bank instead of levelling the wings. The guide also explains how a newly held attitude becomes the target. This is a feature of the VSKYLABS concept aircraft.
VSKYLABS F-19 concept aircraft · X-Plane 12
VSKYLABS · Read more ↗Into the cockpit
YouTube VSKYLABS · 3 min ·
[Archive-2022] VSKYLABS F-19 Landing demonstration with Aural AOA warning system in VR X-Plane 12
VSKYLABS demonstrates a VR landing with the F-19's audible angle-of-attack warning.
Simulator · VSKYLABS F-19 · X-Plane 12 (2022 footage)
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Meet VSKYLABS F-19 concept
Testors' speculative 1980s F-19 model-kit concept supplied the shape for VSKYLABS' X-Plane aircraft. The developer assigned the fictional fighter a flight envelope, systems and basic simulated weapons. Its handling is a simulator interpretation without a real F-19 flight-test record.
VSKYLABS F-19 concept
Aircraft type designators
A model-specific ICAO or FAA designator has not been confirmed in the references reviewed for this aircraft.
History & design
The stealth fighter that began as a hypothesis
The project draws on the 1980s Testors F-19 concept and the aircraft imagined by MicroProse. Those origins matter: the F-19 presented here is a speculative design, not a declassified service aircraft.
VSKYLABS · VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations Aircraft Center: VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot': F-19 Stealth Fighter ↗VSKYLABS hypothetical F/A-19A; not an operational military aircraft
Turning an outline into an X-Plane aircraft
VSKYLABS dates its development to 2015. The team built systems, propulsion and handling around the concept, modifying the original proposal where its design work required it. Testors/Italeri permitted the project, while the developer identifies it as independent rather than endorsed.
VSKYLABS · VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations Aircraft Center: VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot': F-19 Stealth Fighter ↗VSKYLABS hypothetical F/A-19A; not an operational military aircraft
Systems & details
Which specification is being described
The dimensions and weights describe VSKYLABS’ F/A-19A. Its virtual twin afterburning engines and three internal weapon bays form part of this interpretation. The add-on supplies basic air-to-air and air-to-ground capability; the developer does not present it as a detailed combat-systems simulation.
In your simulator
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X-Plane 12F-19 concept
VSKYLABS · Released
F-19 concept
VSKYLABS · Released
Manuals & resources
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Simulator documentation
Two different altitude referencesVSKYLABS F-19 concept aircraft · X-Plane 12
The developer distinguishes ALT, which holds barometric altitude, from TER, which uses the radar-altimeter target. Its terrain-following guidance explicitly discusses limitations over flat surfaces and deep canyons. These are documented simulator modes, with different purposes.
ALT and TER mode notes
VSKYLABS · Read the source ↗WLV holds an attitudeVSKYLABS F-19 concept aircraft · X-Plane 12
Despite its abbreviation, the developer describes WLV as an attitude-hold mode: it keeps the selected pitch and bank instead of levelling the wings. The guide also explains how a newly held attitude becomes the target. This is a feature of the VSKYLABS concept aircraft.
Directions for using the WLV mode
VSKYLABS · Read the source ↗The Testors concept in X-Plane 12F-19 concept · VSKYLABS · X-Plane 12
The product makes the speculative Testors F-19 concept flyable in X-Plane 12. Its systems and flight characteristics are developer interpretations of an imagined aircraft.
Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14
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Developer documentation
VSKYLABS Aerospace Simulations Aircraft Center: VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot': F-19 Stealth FighterVSKYLABS · Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14 VSKYLABS F-19 Stealth Fighter. Highly Engineered Concept Fighter for X-Plane.VSKYLABS · Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14 F-19 autopilot guideVSKYLABS · Developer reference checked 15 September 2026; applies to the named simulator product.Built-in force-feedback profiles
Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.
Catalogue programme-20261022-v1 · 2 profile choices
VSKYLABS F-19
VSKYLABS · Free and Pro · Revision 3 · Inherited starting point
X-Plane 12
VSKYLABS F-19: The spring supplies the selected hypothetical electronic-control response.
VSKYLABS F-19 concept
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
X-Plane 12
VSKYLABS F-19 concept: The spring supplies the selected hypothetical electronic-control response.
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