A small Indiana airport updates its flight path rules after a navigation beacon shuts down

The Federal Aviation Administration is changing the flight path rules for Nappanee Municipal Airport in Indiana. This update is needed because a key navigation beacon in Goshen, IN, has been turned off.

For decades, air travel relied on a network of ground-based radio beacons called VORs. These beacons guided planes along specific routes. The FAA is slowly decommissioning these older systems as part of a plan to modernize air navigation, moving towards satellite-based GPS. This small change in Nappanee is a tiny piece of that larger shift, showing how local flight procedures must adapt when the old infrastructure goes away.