airport beacon

airport beacon

A visual navigation aid displaying alternating white and green flashes to indicate a lighted airport or white flashes only for an unlighted airport. See aerodrome beacon.
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The light from NAS Pensacola's lighthouse made a slow sweep over the bay and dueled with the green and white, rotating, airport beacon.
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The Gardner Municipal Airport beacon is about 100 feet south of the peak, he said.
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and is stranded at a remote salesman's convention - from the windows of his sterile hotel, airport beacon lights dot the horizon ominously, and, somehow, he finds himself the target of some angry, violent Buddhists.
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Lycoming County-Jersey Shore Airport, Jersey Shore, $135,000, to be used toward land acquisition and installation of an airport beacon.
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White lights define the runway approach, runway edge, runway centreline or one colour of the airport beacon.
2 Nighttime VFR Airport beacon, runway edge lights, threshold lights, wind cone (preferably lighted).
3 Non-Precision Approach Basic instrument landing system, basic approach lighting system, glide slope indicator, airport beacon, runway edge lights, threshold lights, runway end identifier lights, wind cone (preferably lighted), lighted signing, lighted taxiway edge lights.
Instrument landing system, approach lighting system, glide slope indicator, high intensity airport beacon, high intensity runway edge lights, high intensity threshold and end lights, runway end identifier lights, wind cone (preferably lighted), lighted signing, lighted distance remaining signing, and taxiway edge lights.
Instrument landing system, full approach lighting system with red side barrettes, glide slope indicator, high intensity airport beacon, high intensity runway edge lights, runway centreline lights, high intensity full threshold and full end lights, runway end identifier lights, touchdown zone lights, wind cone (preferably lighted), lighted signing, lighted distance remaining signing, taxiway edge lights, and preferably taxiway centreline lighting.
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The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) Is Requesting Statements Of Qualifications From Interested Consulting Engineering Firms With Extensive Experience In Airport Beacons For The Cip 1690, Replacement Of Airport Rotating Beacon Project At The John C.
Replacement of Airport Rotating Beacon CIP 1690

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