Nonstop flight route between Asunción, Paraguay and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU), Asunción, Paraguay and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,404 miles (or 7,088 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 Silvio Pettirossi International 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 Silvio Pettirossi International Airport and Pope Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU):

• The airport, located within Luque, may be reached from the city of Asuncion via the Airport Main Road, which runs adjacent to nearby Ñu Guasú Park.
• The furthest airport from Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU) is Taipei International Airport (Taipei Songshan Airport) (TSA), which is nearly antipodal to Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (meaning Silvio Pettirossi International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Taipei International Airport (Taipei Songshan Airport)), and is located 12,378 miles (19,920 kilometers) away in Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China.
• Silvio Pettirossi International Airport handled 835,323 passengers last year.
• Because of Silvio Pettirossi International Airport's relatively low elevation of 291 feet, planes can take off or land at Silvio Pettirossi International 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 Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU) is Clorinda Airport (CLX), which is located only 14 miles (23 kilometers) WSW of ASU.
• Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Silvio Pettirossi International Airport", another name for ASU is "Aeropuerto Internacional de Asunción Silvio Pettirossi".

Facts about Pope Field (POB):

• The drop zones, low-level routes, and dirt landing zones at Fort Bragg became familiar to many men bound for Southeast Asia.
• On September 21, 1954, Ninth AF turned Pope over to the 464th Troop Carrier Wing which transferred from Lawson AFB, Georgia.
• Lessons learned in the Gulf War in 1990-1991 led senior defense planners to conclude that the structure of the military establishment created numerous command and control problems.
• The United States Army Fort Bragg Garrison is the host organization at Pope Field.
• Pope AFB is named after First Lieutenant Harley Halbert Pope who was killed on January 7, 1919, when the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny he was flying crashed into the Cape Fear River.
• The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
• The USAF 440th Airlift Wing is a United States Air Force Reserve unit performs airfield operations to include airfield management, weather forecasting, airfield tower control, airfield navigation and landing systems’ maintenance.
• The 464th provided airlift of troops and cargo, participated in joint airborne training with Army forces, and took part in tactical exercises in the United States and overseas.
• 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.
• 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.