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An aerodrome beacon, airport beacon, rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location to aircraft pilots at night. An aerodrome beacon is mounted on top of a towering structure, often a control tower , above other buildings of the airport.
A marker beacon is a particular type of VHF radio beacon used in aviation, usually in conjunction with an instrument landing system (ILS), to give pilots a means to determine position along an established route to a destination such as a runway.
Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport (IATA: YNG, ICAO: KYNG, FAA LID: YNG) is a public and military airport in Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, 11 miles north of Youngstown [1] and 10 miles (16 km) east of Warren. The airport is home to the Youngstown–Warren Air Reserve Station. The airport has been in operation for over 50 years.
Montauk Airport for Sale: Drop $18 Million for 37 Acres and a 3,200-Foot-Long Runway. Teke Wiggin. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:36 PM. Montauk airport sale.
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 1997, Wilson put the airport up for sale as an industrial park. [8] A group of pilots formed the non-profit New Brandywine Airport Club (NBAC) to purchase and run the airport. [12] Wilson was supportive of this plan, and the sale to NBAC for $2.5 million closed on July 25, 1997.
The most basic radio-navigational aid used in aviation is the non-directional beacon or NDB. It is a simple low- and medium-frequency transmitter used to locate airway intersections and airports and to conduct instrument approaches, with the use of a radio direction finder located on the aircraft.
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