Nonstop flight route between Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil and San Bernardino, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC), Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil and Norton Air Force Base (SBD), San Bernardino, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,042 miles (or 9,724 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 Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport and Norton Air Force Base, 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 Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport and Norton Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC):

• The furthest airport from Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC) is Iejima Airport (IEJ), which is nearly antipodal to Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (meaning Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Iejima Airport), and is located 12,358 miles (19,888 kilometers) away in Iejima, Japan.
• In addition to being known as "Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport", another name for CFC is "Aeroporto Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves".
• The closest airport to Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC) is Ângelo Ponzoni Municipal Airport (VIA), which is located only 20 miles (32 kilometers) SW of CFC.
• Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Norton Air Force Base (SBD):

• On 1 March 1942, the airport was renamed San Bernardino Army Air Field and the San Bernardino Air Depot was established there.
• The last of the facilities on the base were closed in 1995.
• Discrete C-130 Hercules modification tests were conducted out of Area II of the base in the late 1960s, with the 1198th Operational Evaluation and Training Squadron operating four highly classified C-130E special operations testbeds modified at Lockheed Air Services, at near-by Ontario Airport under projects Thin Slice and Heavy Chain.
• The closure was cited as due to environmental wastes, inadequate facilities, and air traffic congestion west, and Los Angeles International Airport, 60 miles west).
• The closest airport to Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is San Bernardino International Airport (SBT), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) S of SBD.
• LAADS was inactivated on 1 April 1966 and the designation was returned as the 27th Air Division, being stationed at Luke AFB, Arizona under Fourth Air Force as part of a consolidation with the inactivating Phoenix Air Defense Sector.
• The furthest airport from Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,447 miles (18,423 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• Norton Air Force Base was named for San Bernardino native Captain Leland Francis Norton.
• In addition to being known as "Norton Air Force Base", another name for SBD is "Norton AFB".