Nonstop flight route between Kankan, Guinea and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Kankan Airport (KNN), Kankan, Guinea and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,666 miles (or 7,509 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 Kankan Airport and Pope Field, 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 Kankan Airport and Pope Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Kankan Airport (KNN):

• The furthest airport from Kankan Airport (KNN) is Mota Lava Airport (MTV), which is nearly antipodal to Kankan Airport (meaning Kankan Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mota Lava Airport), and is located 12,133 miles (19,526 kilometers) away in Mota Lava, Vanuatu.
• The closest airport to Kankan Airport (KNN) is Siguiri Airport (GII), which is located 68 miles (110 kilometers) N of KNN.

Facts about Pope Field (POB):

• On December 1, 1974 the Military Airlift Command took responsibility for tactical airlift and assumed command of Pope with all of its assigned units.
• The 10th TRG was inactivated on April 1, 1949 and the host unit at Pope was the 4415th Air Base Group.
• In 1918, Congress established Camp Bragg, an Army field artillery site named for the Confederate General Braxton Bragg.
• Original operations included photographing terrain for mapping, carrying the mail, and spotting for artillery and forest fires.
• The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Headquarters, Ninth Air Force, was located at Pope in August 1950.
• In August 1971, the 464th inactivated and the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing administratively moved to Pope AFB from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio.
• The 317th TAW flew the C-130E aircraft.
• The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.