Posted By: h2olvr
Airport control tower? - 12/20/2017 05:03 PM
There is a building behind the airport that has the big white globe on the top of it. Is that the airport control tower?
Posted By: mikeandsondra
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/21/2017 05:15 PM
No it's not. That's the radar facility. The control tower is a very tall building with a glass structure on the top for the controlers to visually see the aircraft.
Posted By: BillandElaine
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/21/2017 06:00 PM
Posted By: Bill_S
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/21/2017 09:04 PM
Bill and Elaine are exactly correct. The bubble atop the control tower houses an ASR (Airport Surveilance Radar) on top of the glassed control tower. Inside the radome (the white "ball") is a rotating S-band radar antenna with an L-band ATCRBS (Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System) interrogator/receiver flat faced array mounted above it, all under the dome.
Posted By: popatop
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/22/2017 12:00 AM
I think club O should look for the contractor that built that to rebuild,it's amazing it is still standing after watching the webcam at the airport fight to the finish!!
Posted By: h2olvr
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/22/2017 04:14 AM
Thank you for the good comments and pictures with the link. Does anyone know what year the control tower was built?
Posted By: Philo
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/22/2017 05:58 PM
I don't know for sure but watched it being built between 5 and 10 years ago
Posted By: irina
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/22/2017 07:44 PM
I knew one of the ATC supervisors and he was trained by Raytheon. They also do their Continuing Education etc.
Posted By: BillandElaine
Re: Airport control tower? - 12/24/2017 12:51 AM
Asked the ATF manager this evening, it was built in 2000.