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    Airway beacon - Wikipedia

    An airway beacon (US) or aerial lighthouse (UK and Europe) was a rotating light assembly mounted atop a tower. These were once used extensively in the United States for visual navigation by airplane pilots along a specified airway corridor. In Europe, they were used to guide aircraft with lighted beacons at … See more

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    A network of aerial lighthouses was established in the United Kingdom and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Use of the lighthouses … See more

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    Approximately 1,500 airway beacons were constructed to guide pilots from city to city, covering 18,000 miles (29,000 km). Today, most of the beacons have been removed, but the State of … See more

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  2. A Guiding Light: The Airway Beacon Tower - National …

    Apr 5, 2019 · The long-delayed passage of the Air Commerce Act finally allowed a massive uptick in beacon construction with the introduction of acetylene-powered beacons equipped with Fresnel lens for maximum visibility, located …

  3. Airway Beacons List—Eastern U.S. – Zhanna's …

    The following is an incomplete list of airway beacons and arrows. The original list, compiled by Roger Barnes in 2003, was drawn from the NGS database of survey marks. In recent years, many other contributors have shared their …

  4. Map of Airway Beacons – Zhanna's SurveyStation

  5. Airway Beacons – Zhanna's SurveyStation

    The new standard airway beacon is a 36-inch rotating unit showing two beams of light separated by an angle of 180, each beam having a maximum of about 1,250,000 candlepower. The airway beacons are so operated as to show six …

  6. Airport Beacons Explained - Pilot Institute

    Apr 25, 2023 · Airport beacons (also known as “airport rotating beacons” or “aerodrome beacons”) are like lighthouses for pilots. Their primary purpose is to flash bright lights and mark the location of an airport at night or in low visibility.

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  8. Airway Beacons -The End of an Era | Montana …

    For over eighty years, airplane pilots relied on a chain of lighted nighttime airway beacons to navigate their way across Montana’s big sky. At the system’s height in the early 1940s, eighty-four beacons marked several airway routes across …

  9. Transcontinental Airway System - Wikipedia

    24 inches (610 mm) diameter rotating beacons were mounted on 53-foot (16 m) high towers, and spaced ten miles apart. The spacing was closer in the mountains, and farther apart in the plains. The beacons were five million …

  10. Rotating Airport Beacons: 100 Years of Helping Pilots …

    Mar 3, 2022 · Electric light beacons – accurately known today as airway beacons – quickly replaced these bonfire methods in 1923 by both the military and US Post Office. They were placed on top of towers and had a white …

  11. Blast from the Past: Lighted Airways and Airway Beacons

    A close examination of the chart reveals that the original lighted airway installed in the mid-1920s as the first transcontinental airway from San Francisco to Chicago was still in use in 1946. It provided point-to-point night time …