Nonstop flight route between Falkland Islands and Bisbee, Arizona, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), Falkland Islands and Bisbee Municipal Airport (BSQ), Bisbee, Arizona, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,536 miles (or 10,519 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 RAF Mount Pleasant and Bisbee Municipal Airport, 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 RAF Mount Pleasant and Bisbee Municipal Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | MPN / EGYP |
Airport Name: | RAF Mount Pleasant |
Location: | Falkland Islands |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°49'22"S by 58°26'49"W |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
View all routes: | Routes from MPN |
More Information: | MPN Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | BSQ / |
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Location: | Bisbee, Arizona, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 31°21'50"N by 109°52'59"W |
Area Served: | Bisbee, Arizona |
Operator/Owner: | City of Bisbee |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 4780 feet (1,457 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from BSQ |
More Information: | BSQ Maps & Info |
Facts about RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN):
- Flights are planned to Saint Helena when a new airport there opens in 2016.
- The furthest airport from RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Mount Pleasant (meaning RAF Mount Pleasant is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mohe Gulian Airport), and is located 12,353 miles (19,879 kilometers) away in Mohe, Heilongjiang, China.
- Using the IATA airport code MPN, RAF Mount Pleasant also acts as the Falkland Islands' only international airport, along with its military role.
- A flight of Westland Sea King helicopters for support and search and rescue has been located at Mount Pleasant since November 2007.
- The closest airport to RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Port Stanley Airport (PSY), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) ENE of MPN.
- Flights of Phantoms were rotated through the airfield until 1992 when they were replaced with Tornado F3s.
- On 2 March 2012, the Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for Aerolineas Argentinas flights to Buenos Aires to replace LAN Airlines flights to Chile.
- Currently located at Mount Pleasant are No.
Facts about Bisbee Municipal Airport (BSQ):
- Because of Bisbee Municipal Airport's high elevation of 4,780 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BSQ. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BSQ a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- Bisbee Municipal Airport (BSQ) has 2 runways.
- The furthest airport from Bisbee Municipal Airport (BSQ) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,532 miles (18,558 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- In addition to being known as "Bisbee Municipal Airport", another name for BSQ is "P04".
- The closest airport to Bisbee Municipal Airport (BSQ) is Bisbee Douglas International Airport (DUG), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) ENE of BSQ.