flightsim.andyjohnston.net first opened in 1999 under the name of Andy's Flight Simulator Page, offering a collection of aircraft for Flight Simulator 5 and 5.1. All the aircraft were usable without separately purchasing BAO's Flight Simulator Flight Shop. They were all designed by third party developers for free distribution.
After a test scenery released in August, fictional scenery for the northern Ontario town of Nipigon, the first of a long series of "building" sceneries was released in September of 1999. It added several hundred buildings to the default chicago scenery, and was followed sceneries for Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and dozens of other cities in North America and around the world.
In January of 2000, scenery to cross over between Flight Simulator 98 and Flight Simulator 2000 was released. It was another building scenery, this time meant to fill the empty space between downtown and midtown Manhattan in New York City. The scenery became one of the most popular files. Like a few other releases prior to it, manhataj.zip was simultaniously released at Flightsim.Com, where it has since gone on to be downloaded over 27, 000 times!
June 2000 saw the first version of Ottawa scenery. Initially little more than a building scenery with crude depictions of the Parliament Buildings, the Chateau Laurier, the War Memorial, and a few other locations, the scenery has since gone on to become one of the most detailed city sceneries ever created for Flight Simulator.
January 2001 saw the release of another popular New York City scenery, that of Times Sqaure.
Several more releases came before the world was rocked by the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Afterwards, there were no new releases for several months. It was also during this period that the new name and url of flightsim.andyjohnston.net was adopted.
The autogen scenery of Flight Simulator 2002 made the old building sceneries obsolete, but didn't end the quality releases that were made available for flight simulator enthusiasts. The Giant Kitchen, The Giant House, sceneries that placed chain stores into the downtown cores of major US cities, more flights, macros and more, kept making Flight Simulator new and exciting.
In September of 2003, less than two months after the release of Flight Simulator 2004:A Century of Flight, flightsim.andyjohnston.net released its first all original aircraft, the GHHE2.
With the release of FSX, flightsim.andyjohnston.net continued the tradition of original aircraft and scenery all all kinds.
Over the course of almost a decade, flightsim.andyjohnston.net has become the largest and most popular independantly owned and operated flight simulator web site in the world, and the story is just beginning.