Airports of significance in the USA had a LF four-course [A-N] radio beacons at one time. One of the courses was aligned with the instrument runway.
They were supplemented for a short while by a VHF Visual-Aural Range [VAR] which was also four-course but two of the courses were indicated by a left-right panel meter while the other two were audible A-N courses, IIRC.
VAR didn't last long and was superseded by VOR.
The four courses of the VAR beacons were apparently required to be 90 degrees apart, unlike the LF A-N beacons where they could be set considerably away from 90 degree spacings.
Mr. Davaar, I can send you a Section Aeronautical Chart from 1953 that shows a number of cases where A-N beams were aligned with airports and presumably runways. That was the period where both A-N and VOR were active. Send me a PM with your paper-mail address.
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