Nonstop flight route between Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States and Invercargill, New Zealand:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Venango Regional Airport (FKL), Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States and Invercargill Airport (IVC), Invercargill, New Zealand would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,131 miles (or 14,695 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 Venango Regional Airport and Invercargill Airport, 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 Venango Regional Airport and Invercargill Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Venango Regional Airport (FKL):

• Venango Regional Airport (FKL) has 2 runways.
• Venango Regional Airport covers an area of 420 acres at an elevation of 1,540 feet above mean sea level.
• The closest airport to Venango Regional Airport (FKL) is Port Meadville Airport (MEJ), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) NW of FKL.
• In addition to being known as "Venango Regional Airport", another name for FKL is "Chess Lamberton Field".
• The furthest airport from Venango Regional Airport (FKL) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,472 miles (18,463 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Construction of Chess Lamberton Airport as it was originally known, began in 1950.

Facts about Invercargill Airport (IVC):

• Because of Invercargill Airport's relatively low elevation of 5 feet, planes can take off or land at Invercargill 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.
• Regular jet services operated into the airport until 1995, when Air New Zealand restructured all its secondary provincial routes after subsidiary Mount Cook Airline introduced the 68 seat ATR 72-200 into service.
• The closest airport to Invercargill Airport (IVC) is Ryan's Creek Aerodrome (SZS), which is located 35 miles (57 kilometers) SSW of IVC.
• Invercargill Airport has had aspirations from the 1980s through to the 2000s as an international destination with proposals that have failed to get off the ground with nearby Queenstown being developed as a more direct route for jet aircraft.
• In 2005, the runway was extended to 2,210 m at a cost of NZ$5 million, as of 2012 it is the third longest civilian runway in New Zealand, capable of handling aircraft of Boeing 737/Airbus A320 type sized aircraft.
• The furthest airport from Invercargill Airport (IVC) is A Coruña Airport (LCG), which is nearly antipodal to Invercargill Airport (meaning Invercargill Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from A Coruña Airport), and is located 12,168 miles (19,582 kilometers) away in A Coruña, Spain.
• Invercargill Airport (IVC) has 4 runways.
• Regular types using the airport now are, ATR 72, and Dash 8 Q-300.
• A fully covered baggage carousel was commissioned in 2001.
• When the Government nationalized all airlines to create NAC in 1947, the Electra service was replaced by de Havilland DH.89s.
• Invercargill Airport handled 27,092 passengers last year.
• Invercargill Airport is a controlled aerodrome located one mile west of the city centre of Invercargill at the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand.