12 SF-S Willows DOCILF Airway Beacon - Willows, CA - Ground Based Air Navigation Support Structures on Waymarking.com

I came across this airway beacon on a topography map while looking for a survey mark which supposedly resides on the concrete base to the beacon. I wasn't able to recover the survey mark but took pictures of the beacon, assuming it was historic (it is). Another survey datasheet to another survey disk (destroyed?) mentions a concrete arrow as well but the arrow head and tail look to have been removed with only the concrete square that the beacon stands on remaining. A website devoted to locating preserved airway beacons and concrete arrows (link below) states that this airway beacon was utilized for the CAM #8 Los Angeles,CA to Seattle,WA Air Mail route from 1929 through the 1930s.

This airway beacon was also used as a survey mark for many years until its rotating beacon light was replaced with a four-lamp beacon sometime prior to 1983.

The site of Willows-Glenn County Airport was once used as an auxiliary airfield for Chico Army Airfield during World War II but was decommissioned in 1945.

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