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Runways Disappear After ICAO Change (HEBA → HEAX) – How to Properly Replace an Existing ICAO

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Loay Ibrahim

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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on updating Borg El Arab Airport in Egypt.

In real life, its ICAO recently changed from HEBA to HEAX, replacing the old Alexandria El Nouzha (HEAX) airport, which is now permanently closed.

I updated my project accordingly — renamed the airport ident from HEBA to HEAX, corrected coordinates to Borg El Arab’s location, and removed all old exclusions.

Everything compiles fine, but in-sim the runways, taxiways, and aprons vanish, leaving only terminal models visible.

If I switch the ICAO back to HEBA, everything works perfectly again.

I tried to do exclusion rectangle it did delete the both HEAX- elnozha airport and HEBA borg el arab then made a new airport with icao HEAX in the same place as HEBA but taxiways and runways all disappear

Also tried doing closed airport method the the old HEAX instead of exclusion but this made both HEAX old and new one closed. And can’t use that icao again.

My question is:

What Is this the officially recommended method to replace or reassign an existing ICAO code in the SDK?

Also The icao should have changed with the AIRAC cycle of 2024 but it didn’t at least for me but it did change in flight planner website.

So, is there a way to update the airac cycle without subscription because I can’t ask people who want to download the airport to get a navigraph subscription.
 
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