South Bend airport airspace gets a new map after a navigation beacon disappears

The Federal Aviation Administration is redrawing the flight paths around South Bend International Airport. This is happening because an old radio beacon that planes used for navigation has been turned off.

For decades, air traffic control relied on a network of ground-based radio beacons to guide planes. The US is slowly decommissioning these older systems, replacing them with satellite-based navigation. This change means pilots will rely more on GPS and less on physical beacons for instrument flights into South Bend.