Nonstop flight route between El Banco, Colombia and Celle, Germany:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Las Flores Airport (ELB), El Banco, Colombia and Celle Air Base (ZCN), Celle, Germany would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,394 miles (or 11,900 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 Las Flores Airport and Celle Air 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 Las Flores Airport and Celle Air Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Las Flores Airport (ELB):

• In addition to being known as "Las Flores Airport", other names for ELB include "Las Flores Airport (Las Flores)", "Aeropuerto Las Flores", "FLO" and "SAEL".
• The closest airport to Las Flores Airport (ELB) is Tandil Airport (TDL), which is located 80 miles (129 kilometers) S of ELB.
• The furthest airport from Las Flores Airport (ELB) is Qingdao Liuting International Airport (TAO), which is nearly antipodal to Las Flores Airport (meaning Las Flores Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Qingdao Liuting International Airport), and is located 12,405 miles (19,963 kilometers) away in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
• Las Flores Airport (ELB) has 2 runways.
• Because of Las Flores Airport's relatively low elevation of 38 feet, planes can take off or land at Las Flores 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.

Facts about Celle Air Base (ZCN):

• Due to the tense situation during the building of the Berlin Wall a small unit of the National Guard of the United States was stationed at Celle Air Base in 1961 in case of a second Berlin Airlift.
• Until the end of World War II the airfield operated under the name of Fliegerhorst Celle-Wietzenbruch.
• Because of Celle Air Base's relatively low elevation of 129 feet, planes can take off or land at Celle Air Base 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 Celle Air Base (ZCN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,761 miles (18,928 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The infrastructure for a renewed airlift, however, was kept in place and was constantly improved until German reunification.
• In addition to being known as "Celle Air Base", other names for ZCN include "Heeresflugplatz Celle" and "(Advanced Landing Ground B-118)".
• Under British occupation metal plates were laid on the entire airfield in order to enable the landing of larger aircraft.
• Celle Air Base (ZCN) currently has only 1 runway.
• In the course of time, the type of aircraft stationed at Celle became larger and larger and crews were trained on almost all current military aircraft.
• The closest airport to Celle Air Base (ZCN) is Hannover Airport (HAJ), which is located only 17 miles (27 kilometers) WSW of ZCN.