Nonstop flight route between DuBois, Pennsylvania, United States and Pituffik, Greenland:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between DuBois Regional Airport (DUJ), DuBois, Pennsylvania, United States and Thule Air Base (THU), Pituffik, Greenland would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,462 miles (or 3,961 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 DuBois Regional Airport and Thule Air Base, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about DuBois Regional Airport (DUJ):

• The furthest airport from DuBois Regional Airport (DUJ) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,523 miles (18,544 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• DuBois Regional Airport (DUJ) currently has only 1 runway.
• Dubois Regional Airport covers an area of 399 acres at an elevation of 1,817 feet above mean sea level.
• The closest airport to DuBois Regional Airport (DUJ) is St. Marys Municipal Airport (STQ), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) NE of DUJ.
• As per the Federal Aviation Administration, this airport had 3,230 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 5,096 in 2009, and 5,728 in 2010.
• In the early 1950s the City of DuBois created a Municipal Airport Authority which looked into means of expanding the existing DuBois City Airport, in the Oklahoma section, east of the city.

Facts about Thule Air Base (THU):

• The furthest airport from Thule Air Base (THU) is Hobart International Airport (HBA), which is located 9,883 miles (15,905 kilometers) away in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
• In 1959, the airbase was the main staging point for the construction of Camp Century, some 150 mi from the base.
• Thule Air Base or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport, is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located 1,207 km north of the Arctic Circle and 1,524 km from the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland.
• The closest airport to Thule Air Base (THU) is Savissivik Heliport (SVR), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) ESE of THU.
• After the German occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940, Henrik Kauffmann Danish Ambassador to the United States, made an agreement "In the name of the king" with the United States authorizing the United States to defend the Danish colonies on Greenland from German aggression - this agreement faced Kaufmann with a charge of high treason.
• In addition to being known as "Thule Air Base", another name for THU is "Thule AB".
• Thule AB was constructed in secret under the code name Operation Blue Jay, but the project was made public in September 1952.
• A delegation from NATO's Parliamentary Assembly visited Thule in early September 2010 and were told by the base commander that, at that time, approximately 600 personnel were serving at Thule, a mix of mostly U.S.