Nonstop flight route between Chadron, Nebraska, United States and Tampa, Florida, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Chadron Municipal Airport (CDR), Chadron, Nebraska, United States and MacDill Air Force Base (MCF), Tampa, Florida, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,547 miles (or 2,489 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 Chadron Municipal Airport and MacDill Air Force Base, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Chadron Municipal Airport (CDR):

• The furthest airport from Chadron Municipal Airport (CDR) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,658 miles (17,153 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Chadron Municipal Airport (CDR) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Chadron Municipal Airport (CDR) is Pine Ridge Airport (XPR), which is located 32 miles (52 kilometers) ENE of CDR.
• As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,152 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 1,875 enplanements in 2009, and 1,769 in 2010.

Facts about MacDill Air Force Base (MCF):

• The closest airport to MacDill Air Force Base (MCF) is Peter O. Knight Airport (TPF), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) NE of MCF.
• In addition to being known as "MacDill Air Force Base", another name for MCF is "MacDill AFB".
• In addition MacDill provided transitional training in the B-17 Flying Fortress.
• The furthest airport from MacDill Air Force Base (MCF) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,436 miles (18,405 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• In late 1943, when Second Air Force began transitioning to B-29 Superfortress training, the B-17 mission returned to MacDill which continued through the end of World War II.
• In addition to the antisubmarine mission, another prewar mission of MacDill was "Project X" the ferrying of combat aircraft eastward to the Philippines via ferrying routes set up by Ferrying Command over South Atlantic Ocean and Central Africa.
• The 29th Bombardment Group was moved to MacDill from Langley Field, Virginia on 21 May 1940.
• Two secondary Army Airfields, Brooksville Army Airfield and Hillsborough Army Airfield were built and opened in early 1942 to support the flight operations of MacDill and Drew Fields.