Nonstop flight route between Marysville, California, United States and Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States and Big Trout Lake Airport (YTL), Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,788 miles (or 2,878 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 Beale Air Force Base and Big Trout Lake Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• Camp Beale also housed a German POW camp, and served as the main camp for a series of satellite POW camps around northern California.
• The furthest airport from Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,251 miles (18,107 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• In September 1962, the 851st SMS became the last Titan I Squadron to achieve alert status.
• As a complete training environment, Camp Beale had tank maneuvers, mortar and rifle ranges, a bombardier-navigator training, and chemical warfare classes.
• DC-18 was initially under the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, established on 15 February 1959.
• The base is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".
• Beale AFB is the home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and located outside of Linda, about 10 miles east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City and about 40 miles north of Sacramento.
• In 1952 Beale AFB was placed in inactive status for conversion to an operational airbase.
• Half of the aircraft were maintained on 15-minute alert, fully fueled, armed, and ready for combat.
• Located in a cantonment area on the outskirts of Beale, the renamed 7th Space Warning Squadron is now an Air Force Space Command unit and it primarily uses its PAVE PAWS radar to detect submarine-launched ballistic missiles and disintegrating spacecraft and space debris.
• The closest airport to Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Yuba County Airport (MYV), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) WSW of BAB.

Facts about Big Trout Lake Airport (YTL):

• The furthest airport from Big Trout Lake Airport (YTL) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,602 miles (17,062 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Big Trout Lake Airport's relatively low elevation of 730 feet, planes can take off or land at Big Trout Lake 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.
• Big Trout Lake Airport (YTL) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Big Trout Lake Airport (YTL) is Bearskin Lake Airport (XBE), which is located 47 miles (76 kilometers) WNW of YTL.