Nonstop flight route between Barra, Bahia, Brazil and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Barra Airport (BQQ), Barra, Bahia, Brazil and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,964 miles (or 6,379 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 Barra 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 Barra Airport and Pope Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Barra Airport (BQQ):

• The airport is presently dedicated to general aviation.
• Barra Airport (BQQ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The airport is located 3 km from downtown Barra.
• In addition to being known as "Barra Airport", another name for BQQ is "Aeroporto de Barra".
• The furthest airport from Barra Airport (BQQ) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is nearly antipodal to Barra Airport (meaning Barra Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Yap International Airport), and is located 12,300 miles (19,794 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
• The closest airport to Barra Airport (BQQ) is Barreiras Airport (BRA), which is located 144 miles (232 kilometers) WSW of BQQ.
• Barra Airport is the airport serving Barra, Brazil.

Facts about Pope Field (POB):

• 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.
• The 10th TRG was inactivated on April 1, 1949 and the host unit at Pope was the 4415th Air Base Group.
• Pope Field is a military facility located 12 miles northwest of the central business district of Fayetteville, in Cumberland County, North Carolina United States.
• The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
• 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.
• 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 drop zones, low-level routes, and dirt landing zones at Fort Bragg became familiar to many men bound for Southeast Asia.