Nonstop flight route between Lakselv, Norway and Gainesville, Florida, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL), Lakselv, Norway and Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV), Gainesville, Florida, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,685 miles (or 7,539 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 Lakselv Airport, Banak and Gainesville Regional 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 Lakselv Airport, Banak and Gainesville Regional Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL):

• In addition to being known as "Lakselv Airport, Banak", another name for LKL is "Lakselv lufthavn, Banak".
• Lakselv Airport, Banak handled 71,763 passengers last year.
• Because of Lakselv Airport, Banak's relatively low elevation of 25 feet, planes can take off or land at Lakselv Airport, Banak 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 furthest airport from Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,476 miles (16,859 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The closest airport to Lakselv Airport, Banak (LKL) is Alta Airport (ALF), which is located 38 miles (62 kilometers) W of LKL.
• Widerøe is the main airline operating at Banak, with daily flights to Alta and Tromsø using Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft.
• Lakselv Airport, Banak is an international airport located at Banak, 1.5 kilometers north of Lakselv, in the municipality of Porsanger, Finnmark county, Norway.
• The Royal Norwegian Air Force took control over the airfield in 1945 and started reconstruction.
• By 1959 the United States was concerned that the militarization of the Kola Peninsula would become the prime point of a Soviet attack on North America.

Facts about Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV):

• Because of Gainesville Regional Airport's relatively low elevation of 151 feet, planes can take off or land at Gainesville Regional 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.
• Construction of the airport began in April 1940 as a Works Project Administration project.
• Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) is Ocala International Airport (OCF), which is located 36 miles (58 kilometers) S of GNV.
• The furthest airport from Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,434 miles (18,401 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• Eclipse Aviation, maker of the Eclipse 500, operated its first factory service center in Gainesville until the company declared bankruptcy in 2009.
• Gainesville Regional Airport is a public airport three miles northeast of Gainesville, in Alachua County, Florida.