The Airport Lighthouse
By Sue Clark on Jan 22, 2008 in The Light Side 
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A lantern room identical to the one that used to be on top of Mobile, Alabama’s Middle Bay Lighthouse, has been refurbished, painted and fitted out with a Fourth Order Fresnel Lens and put on display at Mobile Regional Airport. The lighthouse lantern room is part of a display, complete with kiosks, provided by the Alabama Light House Association to the airport for three years, or until the National Maritime Museum in downtown Mobile is built.
A lighting ceremony for this unusual airport kiosk was held on January 10, with about fifty people in attendance. The cost of the tower rebuilding was about $7,000 dollars. The lens is on loan from the US Coast Guard. Middle Bay Lighthouse is located in Mobile Bay, and is a beheaded screwpile lighthouse. It currently has a small hazard warning beacon on the top to warn mariners of its presence. A sad end to a lighthouse modeled after Hooper Strait in Chesapeake Bay, but at least its memory will live on in the display. The Association hopes to raise enough money to continue restoration on it and two other lighthouses.
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