Nonstop flight route between Milan, Italy and Sumter, South Carolina, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Milan Linate Airport (LIN), Milan, Italy and Shaw Air Force Base (SSC), Sumter, South Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,586 miles (or 7,381 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 Milan Linate Airport and Shaw 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 Milan Linate Airport and Shaw 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 Milan Linate Airport (LIN):

• The airport was built next to Idroscalo of Milan in the 1930s when Taliedo Airport from the southern border of Milan, and one of the world's first aerodromes and airports, became too small for commercial traffic.
• The closest airport to Milan Linate Airport (LIN) is Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY), which is located 25 miles (41 kilometers) NE of LIN.
• In addition to being known as "Milan Linate Airport", another name for LIN is "Aeroporto di Milano-Linate".
• Milan Linate Airport (LIN) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Milan Linate Airport (meaning Milan Linate Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,133 miles (19,526 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Milan Linate Airport handled 9,229,890 passengers last year.

Facts about Shaw Air Force Base (SSC):

• The closest airport to Shaw Air Force Base (SSC) is Sumter Airport (SUM), which is located only 7 miles (11 kilometers) ENE of SSC.
• On 25 June 1953, the 66th TRW departed Shaw, being reassigned to Sembach Air Base, West Germany.
• By 1980, the advent of reconnaissance satellites made the need for tactical aircraft reconnaissance less and less necessary.
• After the establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate military branch in September 1947, Shaw Army Airfield was renamed Shaw Air Force Base, on 13 January 1948 and the 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing was activated on 15 August 1947 with the implementation of the Hobson Plan.
• The furthest airport from Shaw Air Force Base (SSC) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,545 miles (18,580 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• For a brief time, Shaw Field also served as a prisoner-of-war camp.
• Jurisdiction of Shaw was again transferred to Tactical Air Command on 23 March 1946.
• Over the next four decades, the squadrons under the 363d TRW changed frequently.
• The 66th TRW was formed at Shaw from the RB-26 assets of the 18th TRS and RF-80s transferred from South Korea.