Nonstop flight route between Casa Grande, Arizona, United States and San Bernardino, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ), Casa Grande, Arizona, United States and Norton Air Force Base (SBD), San Bernardino, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 325 miles (or 522 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 Casa Grande Municipal Airport and Norton Air Force Base, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ):

• On February 7, 2013 a twin engine Beechcraft King Air crashed at Casa Grande at 11:45 a.m.
• Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,477 miles (18,470 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) is Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA), which is located 25 miles (41 kilometers) NNE of CGZ.

Facts about Norton Air Force Base (SBD):

• The last of the facilities on the base were closed in 1995.
• 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.
• 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.
• With the air force moving into the jet age in the late 1940s, Norton began overhauling jet engines in 1951, and the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area became one of three air force jet overhaul centers by 1953.
• The closure was cited as due to environmental wastes, inadequate facilities, and air traffic congestion west, and Los Angeles International Airport, 60 miles west).
• For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command, then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command.
• In addition to being known as "Norton Air Force Base", another name for SBD is "Norton AFB".
• A change of mission in 1966 from Air Force Logistics Command to Military Airlift Command meant that Norton became one of six Military Airlift Command strategic-airlift bases, supporting US Army and Marine Corps' airlift requirements among other functions.