Nonstop flight route between Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil and Marysville, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Guanambi Airport (GNM), Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil and Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,248 miles (or 10,055 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 Guanambi Airport and Beale Air Force 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 Guanambi Airport and Beale Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Guanambi Airport (GNM):

• The airport is presently dedicated to general aviation.
• In addition to being known as "Guanambi Airport", another name for GNM is "Aeroporto de Guanambi".
• The airport is located 4 km from Guanambi city centre.
• The closest airport to Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Bom Jesus da Lapa Airport (LAZ), which is located 79 miles (127 kilometers) NW of GNM.
• The furthest airport from Guanambi Airport (GNM) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is nearly antipodal to Guanambi Airport (meaning Guanambi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Yap International Airport), and is located 12,107 miles (19,484 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
• Guanambi Airport (GNM) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• The furthest airport from Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,251 miles (18,107 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• In 1959 Air Defense Command established a Semi Automatic Ground Environment Data Center was established at Beale AFB.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".
• The closest airport to Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Yuba County Airport (MYV), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) WSW of BAB.
• Beale AFB is the home of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and located outside of Linda, about 10 miles east of the towns of Marysville and Yuba City and about 40 miles north of Sacramento.
• In 1962, in order to retain the lineage of its MAJCOM 4-digit combat units and to perpetuate the lineage of many currently inactive bombardment units with illustrious World War II records, Headquarters SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue its MAJCOM strategic wings that were equipped with combat aircraft and to activate AFCON units, most of which were inactive at the time which could carry a lineage and history.
• In July 1965 the wing was redesignated the 456th Bombardment Wing, Heavy with the inactivation of the Titan I Missile squadron but continued to fly the B-52 and KC-135.
• On 16 May 1964, Defense Secretary McNamara directed the accelerated phaseout of the Atlas and Titan I ICBMs.