The Homestake Airway Beacon was erected atop a granite outcrop ... of Butte and a mile south of Interstate 90. The 15-foot tower, a generator shed and power line occupy about three acres of ...

Lake Bloomington’s tower beacon carried the designation “14, SL-C Airway,” meaning it was the 14th such beacon between St. Louis and Chicago. On Sept. 22, 1939, the Bloomington City Council ...

An Airway Beacon Tower is also on site. “Air mail pilots navigated by beacons,” Abrams noted, prior to the advent of more sophisticated systems. The hangars contain military and civilian aircraft.

They included towers in western Montana near Lookout ... Montana remains the only state in the country with operating airway beacons. But now that distinction has a time stamp.

The beacon and tower were removed in 1954 ... Each red star marked the location of an airway beacon. Jansen's site was marked "37." (Courtesy of Ray Hawkins) More than 14,500 miles of lighted ...

"Beacons were positioned every 10 miles along the airway. At the top of a 51-foot steel tower was a 1 million candlepower-rotating beacon. Pilots could see the clear flash of light from a distance of ...

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But this new system of towers — inland lighthouses with ... By 1926, the Transcontinental Airway System’s light beacons were brought under the authority of the Bureau of Lighthouses and ...

St Johns Beacon, known locally as Radio City Tower, is a landmark of Liverpool's skyline. From the second-tallest free-standing structure in Liverpool you can see as far as the Lake District ...