Nonstop flight route between Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States and Wallops Island, Virginia, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield (ABR), Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States and Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL), Wallops Island, Virginia, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,287 miles (or 2,071 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 Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield and Wallops Flight Facility Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield (ABR):

• Originally named Aberdeen Municipal Airport, the name was changed to Saunders Field in 1946.
• The furthest airport from Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield (ABR) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,503 miles (16,903 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Aberdeen Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located two nautical miles east of the central business district of Aberdeen, a city in Brown County, South Dakota, United States.
• Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield (ABR) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Aberdeen Regional AirportAberdeen Army Airfield (ABR) is Britton Municipal Airport (TTO), which is located 41 miles (67 kilometers) NE of ABR.
• Aberdeen Regional Airport covers an area of 1,284 acres at an elevation of 1,302 feet above mean sea level.

Facts about Wallops Flight Facility Airport (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.
• 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 Wallops Visitor Center has a variety of hands-on exhibits and hosts weekly educational activities and programs to enable children to explore and learn about the technologies designed and used by NASA researchers and scientists.
• Since 2001, engineers at NASA Wallops Flight Facility have been developing new range technologies, systems and approaches to improve the cost and responsiveness of launch and flight test activities, within the constraints of available funding and program schedules.
• 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.
• On September 6, 2013, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer was launched from Wallops, atop a Minotaur V rocket.