Nonstop flight route between Les Cayes, Haiti and Wallops Island, Virginia, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Antoine Simon airport (CYA), Les Cayes, Haiti and Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL), Wallops Island, Virginia, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,363 miles (or 2,193 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 relatively short distance between Antoine Simon airport and Wallops Flight Facility Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CYA / MTCA |
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Location: | Les Cayes, Haiti |
GPS Coordinates: | 18°16'15"N by 73°47'17"W |
Area Served: | Les Cayes, Haiti |
Operator/Owner: | Autorité Aéroportuaire Nationale |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 98 feet (30 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CYA |
More Information: | CYA Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | WAL / KWAL |
Airport Name: | Wallops Flight Facility Airport |
Location: | Wallops Island, Virginia, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 37°56'24"N by 75°27'59"W |
Elevation: | 0 feet (0 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from WAL |
More Information: | WAL Maps & Info |
Facts about Antoine Simon airport (CYA):
- Because of Antoine Simon airport's relatively low elevation of 98 feet, planes can take off or land at Antoine Simon airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
- In addition to being known as "Antoine Simon airport", another name for CYA is "Aéroport des Cayes".
- Antoine-Simon Airport is the fourth airport in Haiti in passenger traffic is located near the city of Les Cayes, in Haiti's Southern peninsula.
- The closest airport to Antoine Simon airport (CYA) is Jérémie Airport (JEE), which is located 37 miles (59 kilometers) NW of CYA.
- Antoine Simon airport (CYA) currently has only 1 runway.
- This airport is served by scheduled and charter airlines from Port-au-Prince.
- The furthest airport from Antoine Simon airport (CYA) is Christmas Island Airport (XCH), which is located 11,895 miles (19,144 kilometers) away in Christmas Island, Australia.
- The Autorité Aéroportuaire Nationale plans to make this an international airport by extending the runway to 3,000 m and adding a terminal with customs and other services.
Facts about Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL):
- The Wallops Research Range includes ground-based and mobile systems, and a range control center.
- There have been over 16,000 launches from the rocket testing range at Wallops since its founding in 1945 in the quest for information on the flight characteristics of airplanes, launch vehicles, and spacecraft, and to increase the knowledge of the Earth's upper atmosphere and the environment of outer space.
- The closest airport to Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Accomack County Airport (MFV), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) SW of WAL.
- The furthest airport from Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,785 miles (18,965 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- Because of Wallops Flight Facility Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Wallops Flight Facility Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
- LCT2 is an effort to produce a relatively low-cost transceiver to allow launch vehicles to communicate through NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System after they have gone over the horizon from the launch site.
- The WFF Main Base is located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on the Delmarva Peninsula about 5 miles west of Chincoteague, Virginia.
- For many years WFF was home to the NSIP Sub-SEM and SEM projects.