Nonstop flight route between Alliance, Nebraska, United States and Boulder, Colorado, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA), Alliance, Nebraska, United States and Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU), Boulder, Colorado, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 188 miles (or 302 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 Alliance Municipal Airport and Boulder Municipal Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | AIA / KAIA |
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| Location: | Alliance, Nebraska, United States |
| GPS Coordinates: | 42°3'11"N by 102°48'14"W |
| Area Served: | Alliance, Nebraska |
| Operator/Owner: | City of Alliance |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 3931 feet (1,198 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 3 |
| View all routes: | Routes from AIA |
| More Information: | AIA Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | WBU / KBDU |
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| Location: | Boulder, Colorado, United States |
| GPS Coordinates: | 40°2'21"N by 105°13'32"W |
| Operator/Owner: | City of Boulder |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 5288 feet (1,612 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 2 |
| View all routes: | Routes from WBU |
| More Information: | WBU Maps & Info |
Facts about Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA):
- Alliance Municipal Airport is in Box Butte County, Nebraska, three miles southeast of the city of Alliance, which owns it.Great Lakes Airlines scheduled passenger flights are subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
- Though speculation was that the Army would make the huge Alliance airfield a permanent installation, by November 20 the Troop Carrier Command closed the facility permanently and began to make plans to sell the surplus property.
- In addition to being known as "Alliance Municipal Airport", another name for AIA is "(former Alliance Army Airfield)".
- Due to disputes between the U.S.
- Western DC-3s started flying to Alliance in the 1940s.
- After the paratroops left Alliance, Second Air Force temporarily used the Alliance airfield in the fall of 1944 for the training of B-29 Superfortress crews.
- Great Lakes suffers a $2,450,711 annual operating loss providing service to Alliance and Chadron.
- In addition to the USAAF units, the Army 326th Glider Infantry, 507th Parachute Infantry, and 878th Airborne Engineers trained at Alliance before deployment to the European Theater.
- Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA) has 3 runways.
- Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 1,786 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 1,395 in 2009 and 1,416 in 2010.
- The closest airport to Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA) is Western Nebraska Regional Airport (BFF), which is located 43 miles (68 kilometers) WSW of AIA.
- The furthest airport from Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,697 miles (17,215 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
Facts about Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU):
- The furthest airport from Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,881 miles (17,511 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- Boulder Municipal Airport is a public airport located 3 miles northeast of the central business district of Boulder, a city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
- The closest airport to Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU) is Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SSE of WBU.
- Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU) has 2 runways.
- In addition to being known as "Boulder Municipal Airport", another name for WBU is "BDU".
- There is no terminal, just hangars for various aviation companies and maintenance buildings.
- Because of Boulder Municipal Airport's high elevation of 5,288 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at WBU. Combined with a high temperature, this could make WBU a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
