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An airway beacon or aerial lighthouse 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 specifi
Illustration of Airway beacon, showing designated number. In this example, for units digit "1", Morse code should be ".--" (W).
An aerial lighthouse located in Pansio, Turku, Finland
The last operational aerial lighthouse in the UK, at the RAF College main building at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire
Gas holder Goliath in Eindhoven (designated by the letters EH) in the 1930s
Wicaḣapi is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River. The oldest mounds were constructed about 2,500 years ago by local Indi
Airway beacon
…continues to maintain several as navigation aids in mountainous terrain. One beacon is preserved for historical purposes in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the Indian Mounds Park on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. A rotating airway beacon has been in continuous operation at the summit of Rocky Butte in Portland, Oregon…
Two Indigenous burial mounds at this park.
View of Wicaḣapi ca. 1898
The Indian Mounds Park "Airway" Beacon
Hopewell Exchange Network H Roe 2010