{"id":153862,"date":"2024-12-02T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/unique-us-atc-towers-list\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T10:01:16","slug":"5-unique-air-traffic-control-towers-at-us-airports-that-stand-out-from-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=153862","title":{"rendered":"5 Unique Air Traffic Control Towers At US Airports That Stand Out From The Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264487\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-traffic-control-tower\/\"  >Air Traffic Control towers<\/a><\/span> (ATC) are some of the most iconic pieces of infrastructure at airports and are built to have a commanding view of the airport and its runway. The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"12874\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/croydon-international-airport\/\" >first traffic control tower was built in 1920 at England&#8217;s Croydon Airport near London<\/a><\/span>. It was a wooden hut around 15 feet high with windows on all four sides, and in 1930,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034945\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-air-traffic-control-tower-london-history\/\" >the first airport traffic control tower opened in the United States in Cleveland<\/a><\/span>. In the 1950s, towers were able to increase their management of the skies as the industry adopted radar. Here are five of the more notable ATC towers in the US today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATC towers in the US can be remarkable for elegant design, exceptional height, earthquake-proofing, and various other factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6421,396,420,567,3077,5937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control-tower","category-aircraft","category-faa","category-guides","category-lax","category-sfo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153863,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153862\/revisions\/153863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}