Nonstop flight route between Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States and Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Patrick Air Force Base (COF), Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States and Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL), Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,780 miles (or 2,865 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 Patrick Air Force Base and Tomás de Heres Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Patrick Air Force Base (COF):

• The closest airport to Patrick Air Force Base (COF) is Merritt Island Airport (COI), which is located only 9 miles (14 kilometers) NNW of COF.
• Authorized by the Naval Expansion Act of 1938, Naval Air Station Banana River was commissioned on October 1, 1940 as a subordinate base of the Naval Air Operational Training Command NAS Jacksonville, Florida.
• During investigation by a board of inquiry regarding the entire Flight 19 incident, attention was given to the loss of the NAS Banana River-based PBM.
• The host wing for Patrick AFB is the 45th Space Wing, whose officers and airmen manage all launches of unmanned rockets at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 12 miles to the north.
• Present Day:Brig Gen Nina Armagno
• The 9/11 attacks prompted the Air Force to close the heavily used 4-lane State Road A1A, which ran immediately in front of the AFTAC Headquarters building.
• In addition to being known as "Patrick Air Force Base", another name for COF is "Patrick AFB".
• The furthest airport from Patrick Air Force Base (COF) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,550 miles (18,587 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL):

• The closest airport to Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL) is Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana International Airport (CGU), which is located 54 miles (87 kilometers) ENE of CBL.
• In addition to being known as "Tomás de Heres Airport", another name for CBL is "Aeropuerto Nacional Tomas de Heres".
• The furthest airport from Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL) is Selaparang Airport (AMI), which is nearly antipodal to Tomás de Heres Airport (meaning Tomás de Heres Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Selaparang Airport), and is located 12,397 miles (19,952 kilometers) away in Mataram, Indonesia.
• Tomás de Heres Airport (CBL) has 2 runways.
• Because of Tomás de Heres Airport's relatively low elevation of 197 feet, planes can take off or land at Tomás de Heres Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.