Nonstop flight route between Burns, Oregon, United States and Tonopah, Nevada, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Burns Municipal Airport (BNO), Burns, Oregon, United States and Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD), Tonopah, Nevada, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 416 miles (or 670 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 Burns Municipal Airport and Tonopah Test Range Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Burns Municipal Airport (BNO):

• The furthest airport from Burns Municipal Airport (BNO) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,928 miles (17,588 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Because of Burns Municipal Airport's high elevation of 4,159 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BNO. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BNO a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Burns Municipal Airport (BNO) is Grant County Regional Airport (GCRA) (JDA), which is located 56 miles (90 kilometers) N of BNO.
• Burns Municipal Airport (BNO) has 2 runways.

Facts about Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD):

• The furthest airport from Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,207 miles (18,036 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• In May 1973, when Project HAVE IDEA was initiated for joint technical and tactical evaluation of Soviet aircraft types, the tactical evaluation flights of foreign aircraft were undertaken by Detachment 1, 57th Fighter Weapons Wing.
• The Tonopah Test Range airfield came into existence in 1957 and was used by the Department of Energy, the Air Force, and several contractors.
• Pakistan was the first and largest customer of the J-6 receiving nearly 300 aircraft, mostly of the J-6C variety.
• In addition, unconfirmed Soviet aircraft flown were MiG-25 Foxbat.
• The closest airport to Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Tonopah Airport (TPH), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) NW of XSD.
• In 1997, the United States purchased 21 Moldovan aircraft for evaluation and analysis, under the Cooperative Threat Reduction accord.
• The assets of the squadron could not go to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, and the fate of them remains in some cases, still classified.