The old, rotating beacon, a Westinghouse model DCB 36, he pointed out, overlooks the airport. Its purpose during World War II and after — and again, as it turns out — is to guide pilots to the ...

The beacon, sitting a top its 50-foot tower, was probably installed in the mid-1930s when the airport was first being constructed as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

This is the world’s largest model railway, home not only to a functioning miniature airport, but also tiny replicas of some of the world’s most popular destinations: Venice, Machu Picchu and ...

A visible link to the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport's storied past came down Wednesday with the removal of a beacon tower dating back to the 1940s, according to airport officials. The metal ...

While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field “to prevent collisions.” ...

Young Guineans study under the dim parking lot lights at G’bessi Airport in Conakry, Guinea Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Only about a fifth of Guinea’s 10 million people have access to electricity ...

Pia Wedel, 34, who grew up in West Berlin, opposed closing Tempelhof Airport, but supports the new airport. “I think that Schönefeld is a must, because it’s what suits a big city,” she said.