This article is about identifying airports to overhead aircraft. For sending information to travellers' phones, see Bluetooth low energy beacon.
A portable rotating beacon on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum
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. It produces flashes similar to that of a lighthouse.
Airport and heliport beacons are designed in such a way to make them most effective from one to ten degrees above the horizon; however, they can be seen well above and below this peak spread. The beacon may be an omnidirectional flashing xenon strobe, or it may be an aerobeacon rotating at a constant speed which produces the visual effect of flashes at regular intervals. Flashes may be of one, two, or three alternating colors (described below).
An aerodromebeacon, airport beacon, rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location...
located on land or on water. Lighted beacons are called lights; unlighted beacons are called daybeacons. Aerodromebeacons are used to indicate locations of...
Rotating beacon may refer to: Aerobeacon, a light assembly used to create a fixed or flashing signal visible over long distances Aerodromebeacon, a beacon installed...
designed and built by Carlisle & Finch. Originally intended for use as an aerodromebeacon, it was also widely used in marine lighthouses. Depending on the type...
[citation needed] Navigational aids at Hosur include PAPI lights and an Aerodromebeacon. It has aprons measuring 110 × 90 and 110 × 80 meters for jet aircraft...
passengers during peak hours. Navigational aids at Puducherry include an aerodromebeacon. Currently land is being acquired to extend the runway and accommodate...
Navigational aids at Tuticorin airport include NDB TU, PAPI lights, and an aerodromebeacon. The DGCA has granted it a higher category license, moving it from...
or analog or digital signals including data such as those found on aerodromebeacons, rotating tanks, power shovels, radio telescopes, telemetry systems...
facilities (L) LA Approach lighting system (specify runway and type) als LB Aerodromebeacon abn LC Runway centre line lights (specify runway) rcll LD Landing direction...
control tower. This is how the settlement got its name ('radiofar' = aerodromebeacon). Settlement began to develop in the late 1980s as the weekend-settlement...
Navigation facilities include DVOR, High Intensity Runway Lights (HIRL), Aerodromebeacon, and a PAPI. The Pakyong Airport project is one of the tallest reinforced...
are still used to mark locations of smaller aerodromes and important helicopter landing sites. Marine beacons, based on the same technology and installed...
peak hours. Navigational aids at Latur include PAPI lights and an Aerodromebeacon Reliance Infrastructure Guru Gobind Singhji Airport - Nanded Baramati...
airport is now named for Russel Merrill, an Alaskan aviation pioneer. An aerodromebeacon was located at Merrill Field and dedicated on 25 September 1932 in...
Inlet Aerodrome], NL, CA - Location - Great Circle Mapper". www.gcmap.com. Retrieved 7 August 2023. "Ross Bay Junction - Canada". Border Beacon Site 212...
Beddington Aerodrome became a large Reserve Aircraft and Training aerodrome for the Royal Flying Corps. After the end of the First World War the aerodrome became...
Merrill Field in the summer of 1930. An aerodromebeacon at the field became the Russel Hyde Merrill Memorial Beacon on 25 Sept. 1932. A bronze plaque dedicated...
an electric motor to change lamps when required. They are used in aerodromebeacons and marine navigational aids. "APL1297A Lampchanger" (PDF). Pharos...
airport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation...
aviators to see the improvements being made. The work, which included an aerodromebeacon, was not completed until 1958, and a dedication program was planned...
Massey Aerodrome features the Massey Air Museum, a static DC-3 that visitors can enter, 24 flying airplanes, 13 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, and...
Picton Aerodrome (IATA: PCN, ICAO: NZPN) is a Non-Certificated Aerodrome 4 NM (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Picton township in the Marlborough District of...
Saint-Quentin Aerodrome List of airports in Newfoundland and Labrador Naval Station Argentia Bay d'Espoir Aerodrome Bonavista Aerodrome Border Beacon Buchans...
which includes the distinct localities of Fishermans Bend, Garden City and Beacon Cove. Historically it was known as Sandridge and developed as the city's...
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