Nonstop flight route between Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil and Jacksonville, Arkansas, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ), Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil and Little Rock Air Force Base (LRF), Jacksonville, Arkansas, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,122 miles (or 8,243 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 Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport and Little Rock 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 Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport and Little Rock 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 Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ):

• In addition to being known as "Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport", another name for LAJ is "Aeroporto Antônio Correia Pinto".
• The furthest airport from Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ) is Kikai Airport (KKX), which is nearly antipodal to Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (meaning Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kikai Airport), and is located 12,397 miles (19,952 kilometers) away in Kikaiga Shima, Kikai-Shima Island, Japan.
• The closest airport to Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ) is Ângelo Ponzoni Municipal Airport (VIA), which is located 76 miles (123 kilometers) NW of LAJ.
• Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ) currently has only 1 runway.

Facts about Little Rock Air Force Base (LRF):

• In addition to being known as "Little Rock Air Force Base", another name for LRF is "Little Rock AFB".
• On 1 January 1976, the 189 TRG transferred being a TAC-gained unit to a SAC-gained unit when it converted to the KC-135 Stratotanker and was redesignated the 189th Air Refueling Group, becoming one of the first Air National Guard units to be assigned to Strategic Air Command with a concomitant requirement to maintain a 24-hour alert force at Little Rock as well as deployments to support worldwide tanker task forces.
• In 1960, the Air Force announced that Little Rock Air Force Base would house 18 Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles located throughout the state of Arkansas.
• The furthest airport from Little Rock Air Force Base (LRF) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,887 miles (17,521 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• The closest airport to Little Rock Air Force Base (LRF) is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (LIT), which is located only 14 miles (22 kilometers) SSW of LRF.
• From the mid-1990s to the late 1990s, the 314 AW and the 463 AG supported the air war over Serbia and since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the 463 AG has supported both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• On September 18, 1980 an airman conducting maintenance on a USAF Titan-II missile at Little Rock Air Force Base's Launch Complex 374-7 in Southside, just north of Damascus, Arkansas, dropped a socket which fell impacting the rocket's first stage fuel tank resulting in a leak.
• During the 1991 Gulf War, the 314 TAW's two operational C-130 squadrons and the 189 TAG's C-130 squadron supported operations from both the middle east and European theaters.