Flying Circus

Screenshots of the 1999 game running live against the modern preservation server I built.

SimGuild's Flying Circus is a World War I online multiplayer combat flight simulator first released by SimGuild of Lawton, Oklahoma in 1997-1999. It's now 2026, and AKVaska+ has brought it back online: fly the original game client against a modern server that revives the old online arenas. Register a callsign and take to the skies over the Western Front in a Fokker Dr.I, Sopwith Camel, Spad, Albatros, Pfalz or Nieuport.

20 pilots registered · 59 kills logged

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A personal game-preservation project

This is a personal fan preservation project by AKVaska+ for SimGuild's Flying Circus. The goal is simply to keep a piece of late-1990s online gaming history alive and playable. It is not an AK Squad product — the project, its code, and any issues with it are AKVaska+'s alone.

• The original game is unchanged. AKVaska+ does not modify, replace, patch, or alter the original gameplay, art, or design in any way. The game plays exactly as it did in 1999.
• Only a server was built. The original SimGuild login servers are long gone, so AKVaska+ wrote a clean-room server that the original client can connect to, emulating the original online features (arenas, callsigns, radio, combat, scoring) as faithfully as possible.
• Not affiliated with SimGuild. All original rights, artwork, and design belong to their creators. This is a non-commercial labor of love by one pilot who didn't want the game to disappear.
• Not an AK Squad service. Questions, bug reports, or issues about Flying Circus should go to AKVaska+ directly — not to the squad, its officers, or any other AK member.

A small full circle. AKVaska+ lives in Lawton, Oklahoma — the same town where SimGuild built and ran Flying Circus in 1997–1999. He was around the original SimGuild office in those days, playing on the very servers that would eventually go dark. Back then the game lived upstairs at a local Lawton ISP that donated the bandwidth. Today AKVaska+ co-owns a wireless ISP in that same town, and this preservation server — along with the site you're reading — runs on that WISP's infrastructure. Same city, same free-bandwidth spirit, twenty-seven years apart. The game came home. If you're a former Flying Circus pilot, or you were part of SimGuild in Lawton, AKVaska+ would love to hear from you.

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