Nonstop flight route between Foya, Liberia and Novato, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Foya Airport (FOY), Foya, Liberia and Marin County Airport (NOT), Novato, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,039 miles (or 11,329 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 Foya Airport and Marin County 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 Foya Airport and Marin County Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Foya Airport (FOY):

• The closest airport to Foya Airport (FOY) is Voinjama Airport (VOI), which is located 31 miles (50 kilometers) E of FOY.
• Foya Airport (FOY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Foya Airport (FOY) is Mota Lava Airport (MTV), which is nearly antipodal to Foya Airport (meaning Foya Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mota Lava Airport), and is located 12,044 miles (19,383 kilometers) away in Mota Lava, Vanuatu.

Facts about Marin County Airport (NOT):

• Marin County Airport or Gnoss Field, formerly O56, is a public airport two miles northeast of Novato.
• Stol Air Commuter operated flights between the airfield and San Francisco International Airport during the 1970s.
• Gnoss Field is known to local pilots and flight instructors as an excellent airport to practice crosswind landings, especially during afternoons in the late spring and summer when the west wind picks up.
• In addition to being known as "Marin County Airport", other names for NOT include "Gnoss Field" and "DVO".
• The typical Gnoss Field crosswind landing conditions on runway 31 are a stronger than reported headwind on right base and, in a typical training aircraft, a slight amount of wind shear about 100 feet before the runway 31 threshold, settling down to a steady crosswind - but then adding to a slight headwind component, just past the near west side hangars.
• The airport was opened by the Wright family just after World War II to serve the thousands of ex-military pilots expected to be flying after the war.
• The furthest airport from Marin County Airport (NOT) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,343 miles (18,254 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• Because of Marin County Airport's relatively low elevation of 2 feet, planes can take off or land at Marin County 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 Wrights original privately owned airport had a dirt runway and was just west of the current airport, in what is now a grassy field.
• Marin County Airport (NOT) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Marin County Airport (NOT) is Napa County Airport (APC), which is located only 16 miles (25 kilometers) ENE of NOT.