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==Awards==
By June 1999, the series had sold {{nowrap|21 million}} units worldwide, for which it was awarded the [[Guinness World Record]] for best-selling flight simulator series.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Computer Games: Best-Selling Flight Simulator |title=[[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Records 2001]] |date=2000 |publisher=Guinness |isbn=978-0-85112-102-4 |page=121 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec00enfi/page/121}}</ref>

The success of the ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' series has led to Guinness World Records awarding the series seven world records in the ''Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008''. These records include "Longest Running Flight Sim Series", "Most Successful Flight Simulator Series", and "Most Expensive Home Flight Simulator Cockpit", which was built by Australian trucking tycoon Matthew Sheil, and cost around $200,000 to build.<ref name="Matt Sheil">{{cite news|last=Moses|first=Asher|title=Matt's on a different plane ... and it's surreal|url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/13/1236447451617.html|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=May 12, 2012|date=March 12, 2009|archive-date=January 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115123051/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/13/1236447451617.html|url-status=live}}</ref>