Nonstop flight route between La Ceiba, Honduras and Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Golosón International Airport (LCE), La Ceiba, Honduras and Bristol Filton Airport (FZO), Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,127 miles (or 8,250 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 Golosón International Airport and Bristol Filton 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 Golosón International Airport and Bristol Filton Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Golosón International Airport (LCE):

• Golosón International Airport (LCE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Golosón International Airport (LCE) is Roatan International Airport – Bay Islands (RTB), which is located 45 miles (73 kilometers) NNE of LCE.
• Because of Golosón International Airport's relatively low elevation of 39 feet, planes can take off or land at Golosón International 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.
• In addition to being known as "Golosón International Airport", other names for LCE include "Aeropuerto Internacional Golosón", "La Ceiba Airport" and "Hector C. Moncada Air Base".
• The furthest airport from Golosón International Airport (LCE) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is nearly antipodal to Golosón International Airport (meaning Golosón International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport), and is located 12,089 miles (19,455 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.

Facts about Bristol Filton Airport (FZO):

• The furthest airport from Bristol Filton Airport (FZO) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,930 miles (19,200 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• On 26 November 2003, Concorde 216 made the final ever Concorde flight from Heathrow, passing over the Bay of Biscay before making a low pass over Bristol and finally returning to Filton where it is now maintained on a temporary apron, although has not been open to the public as a visitor attraction since 2010.
• The closest airport to Bristol Filton Airport (FZO) is Bristol Airport (BRS), which is located only 11 miles (18 kilometers) SSW of FZO.
• Because of Bristol Filton Airport's relatively low elevation of 225 feet, planes can take off or land at Bristol Filton 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.
• During the late 1940s and early 1950s, BAC branched out into the development and production of pre-fabricated buildings, plastics, helicopters, guided weapons, luxury cars, gas turbines and ramjet motors.
• In addition to being known as "Bristol Filton Airport", another name for FZO is "Filton Aerodrome".
• Filton's runway is one of the widest, at 91 m and is a considerable length at 2,467 m long, having been extended first for the maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon airliner in 1949 and again in the late 1960s for Concorde.
• The length of the runway and its closed-to-passengers status made it an ideal dispersion site for the nation's airborne nuclear deterrent during the Cold War.
• On 3 December 1962, Bristol Siddeley Engines were using Vulcan XA894 as a flying test bed for the Olympus 22R, which was designed specifically to power the ill-fated BAC TSR-2 bomber.
• During the early 1950s, British Overseas Airways Corporation flew their Lockheed Constellations and Boeing Stratocruisers into Filton to be serviced in the newly completed Brabazon Hangar, then the largest hangar in the world.
• Before World War II, there were only grass runways at Filton.
• Bristol Filton Airport (FZO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The company grew rapidly during WWI, building thousands of Bristol Fighters and other aircraft.
• The three-bay Brabazon Hangar was built in the late 1940s under the direction of T.