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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.
The location of each airport and presence of control towers is indicated with a circle, or with an outline of the hard-surfaced runways (if over 8,069 feet long). Blue shows an airport with a control tower and magenta for others. Military airstrips (without hard-surface runways) are shown with two concentric circles.
Map of airfields, showing associated light positions. A Pundit Light was a mobile Pundit Beacon. [9] As well as the obvious ability to move these mobile lights to temporary airfields they were also used to camouflage the airfield location from the enemy. The normal peacetime beacon location or light code was no longer used.
An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers. Using these charts and other tools, pilots are able to determine their position, safe altitude, best route to a destination, navigation aids along the way, alternative landing areas in case of an in-flight emergency, and other useful ...
Dawson Army Airfield: Camp Dawson: West Virginia: 3G5 Dillingham Army Airfield: Dillingham Military Reservation: Hawaii: PHDH Dyess Army Airfield: Reagan Test Site: Marshall Islands: PKRO Felker Army Airfield: Fort Eustis: Virginia: KFAF Forney Army Airfield: Fort Leonard Wood: Missouri: KTBN Fort Harrison Army Airfield: Fort Harrison: Montana ...
Civil airport name Military airport/facility name City State IATA / ICAO / FAA Notes Albuquerque International Sunport Kirtland Air Force Base Albuquerque New Mexico ABQ / KABQ / ABQ Atlantic City International Airport: Atlantic City Air National Guard Base / Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City: Egg Harbor Township: New Jersey: ACY / KACY / ACY
The last visual airway beacon was supposedly shut down in 1973, [12] but a few airway beacons are still operating in Portland, Oregon and Western Montana. [16] Those in Montana are charted on the Great Falls sectional chart. [17] Montana was the last state to officially maintain airway beacons, through the state's Aviation Division.
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.