Nonstop flight route between Ouzinkie, Alaska, United States and Falkland Islands:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Ouzinkie Airport (KOZ), Ouzinkie, Alaska, United States and RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), Falkland Islands would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,229 miles (or 14,852 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 Ouzinkie Airport and RAF Mount Pleasant, 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 Ouzinkie Airport and RAF Mount Pleasant. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | KOZ / |
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Location: | Ouzinkie, Alaska, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 57°56'31"N by 152°27'54"W |
Area Served: | Ouzinkie, Alaska |
Operator/Owner: | State of Alaska DOT&PF - Central Region |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 100 feet (30 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from KOZ |
More Information: | KOZ Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | MPN / EGYP |
Airport Name: | RAF Mount Pleasant |
Location: | Falkland Islands |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°49'22"S by 58°26'49"W |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
View all routes: | Routes from MPN |
More Information: | MPN Maps & Info |
Facts about Ouzinkie Airport (KOZ):
- Ouzinkie Airport (KOZ) currently has only 1 runway.
- The furthest airport from Ouzinkie Airport (KOZ) is Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ), which is located 10,779 miles (17,347 kilometers) away in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
- Because of Ouzinkie Airport's relatively low elevation of 100 feet, planes can take off or land at Ouzinkie 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 airport received national media attention in 2009 after being slotted to receive $15 million in federal stimulus money to construct a new airstrip.
- As per Federal Aviation Administration records, Ouzinkie Airport had 2,071 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 2,999 enplanements in 2009, and 2,784 in 2010.
- In addition to being known as "Ouzinkie Airport", other names for KOZ include "Ouzinkie Airport (new)" and "4K5".
- The closest airport to Ouzinkie Airport (KOZ) is Kodiak Municipal Airport (KDK), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) SSE of KOZ.
Facts about RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN):
- On 10 November 2011, it was announced that Prince William would be serving as a Sea King pilot on the station for six weeks during February and March 2012.
- The closest airport to RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Port Stanley Airport (PSY), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) ENE of MPN.
- On 2 March 2012, the Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called for Aerolineas Argentinas flights to Buenos Aires to replace LAN Airlines flights to Chile.
- Flights of Phantoms were rotated through the airfield until 1992 when they were replaced with Tornado F3s.
- Flights are planned to Saint Helena when a new airport there opens in 2016.
- The furthest airport from RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Mount Pleasant (meaning RAF Mount Pleasant is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mohe Gulian Airport), and is located 12,353 miles (19,879 kilometers) away in Mohe, Heilongjiang, China.
- RAF Mount Pleasant is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.