Nonstop flight route between Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan and Fairford, England, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Turkmenabat Airport (CRZ), Türkmenabat, Turkmenistan and RAF Fairford (FFD), Fairford, England, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,177 miles (or 5,112 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 Turkmenabat Airport and RAF Fairford, 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 Turkmenabat Airport and RAF Fairford. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Turkmenabat Airport (CRZ):

• The closest airport to Turkmenabat Airport (CRZ) is Bukhara International Airport (BHK), which is located 67 miles (107 kilometers) NE of CRZ.
• Turkmenabat Airport (CRZ) has 2 runways.
• The airport was opened in 1926.
• In addition to being known as "Turkmenabat Airport", another name for CRZ is "Türkmenabat Aeroporty".
• Because of Turkmenabat Airport's relatively low elevation of 630 feet, planes can take off or land at Turkmenabat 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.
• The furthest airport from Turkmenabat Airport (CRZ) is Mataveri International Airport (IPC), which is located 11,521 miles (18,541 kilometers) away in Easter Island, Chile.

Facts about RAF Fairford (FFD):

• In 1950, as a result of the beginning of the Cold War, the airfield was transferred to the U.S.
• The closest airport to RAF Fairford (FFD) is RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) ENE of FFD.
• Due to the deteriorating airfield facilities and its unique NATO heavy bomber mission, RAF Fairford underwent a $100 million upgrade of its runway and fuel systems in the largest NATO funded airfield construction project within a NATO country since the end of the Cold War.
• Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, England which is currently a standby airfield and therefore not in everyday use.
• On 14 January 2004, the 420th Air Base Group was established at RAF Fairford to improve the control of its geographically separated units that had been aligned beneath the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall.
• The furthest airport from RAF Fairford (FFD) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,898 miles (19,148 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• KC-135 and KC-10 tankers deployed to Fairford supported Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya in 1986.