Nonstop flight route between Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Bratsk Airport (BTK), Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,112 miles (or 9,836 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Bratsk Airport and Pope Field, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.
Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Bratsk Airport and Pope Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | BTK / UIBB |
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Location: | Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia |
GPS Coordinates: | 56°22'11"N by 101°41'53"E |
Area Served: | Bratsk |
Operator/Owner: | AeroBratsk |
Airport Type: | Public/Military |
Elevation: | 1598 feet (487 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from BTK |
More Information: | BTK Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | POB / KPOB |
Airport Name: | Pope Field |
Location: | Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 35°10'14"N by 79°0'51"W |
View all routes: | Routes from POB |
More Information: | POB Maps & Info |
Facts about Bratsk Airport (BTK):
- In addition to being known as "Bratsk Airport", another name for BTK is "Аэропорт Братск".
- The furthest airport from Bratsk Airport (BTK) is Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (PUQ), which is nearly antipodal to Bratsk Airport (meaning Bratsk Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Presidente Carlos Ibáñez International Airport), and is located 12,060 miles (19,408 kilometers) away in Punta Arenas, Chile.
- The closest airport to Bratsk Airport (BTK) is Ust-Ilimsk (UIK), which is located 126 miles (203 kilometers) NNE of BTK.
- Currently Bratsk continues to serve a vital civil aviation role as a staging base for cargo flights to Kamchatka.
- Bratsk Airport (BTK) currently has only 1 runway.
Facts about Pope Field (POB):
- The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- In addition, the USAF 18th Air Support Operations Group, 427th Special Operations Squadron, 21st Special Tactics Squadron, 24th Special Tactics Squadron, and Air Force Combat Control School operate from Pope Field.
- During its time at Pope, a major period of facility expansion occurred.
- The 1930s saw the first major expansion of the facilities at Pope.
- The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
- The 464th received the Mackay Trophy for the dramatic RED DRAGON/DRAGON ROUGE and BLACK DRAGON/DRAGON NOIR hostage rescue missions in the Congo in 1964.
- These changes led to Pope Air Force Base being transferred to the new Air Combat Command upon its activation on June 1, 1992.