Nonstop flight route between Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Bayankhongor, Mongolia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Lakenheath (LKZ), Lakenheath, England, United Kingdom and Bayankhongor Airport (BYN), Bayankhongor, Mongolia would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,158 miles (or 6,692 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 RAF Lakenheath and Bayankhongor 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 RAF Lakenheath and Bayankhongor Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about RAF Lakenheath (LKZ):

• The furthest airport from RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,827 miles (19,034 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• In early 1943, three T-2 hangars were erected on the north side of the airfield for glider storage, 40 Horsa Gliders being dispersed at Lakenheath during that year.
• The first use of Lakenheath Warren as a Royal Flying Corps airfield was in World War I, when the area was made into a bombing and ground-attack range for aircraft flying from elsewhere in the area.
• The closest airport to RAF Lakenheath (LKZ) is RAF Mildenhall (MHZ), which is located only 4 miles (7 kilometers) SW of LKZ.
• Meanwhile on 30 April 1956, two Lockheed U-2s were airlifted to RAF Lakenheath to form CIA Detachment A.
• On 27 November 1948, operational control of RAF Lakenheath was transferred from the Royal Air Force to USAFE.

Facts about Bayankhongor Airport (BYN):

• The closest airport to Bayankhongor Airport (BYN) is Arvaykheer Airport (AVK), which is located 101 miles (162 kilometers) E of BYN.
• Bayankhongor Airport (BYN) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Bayankhongor Airport (BYN) is Cochrane Airfield (LGR), which is nearly antipodal to Bayankhongor Airport (meaning Bayankhongor Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cochrane Airfield), and is located 12,110 miles (19,490 kilometers) away in Cochrane, Chile.
• Because of Bayankhongor Airport's high elevation of 6,085 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at BYN. Combined with a high temperature, this could make BYN a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Bayankhongor Airport handled 2,192 passengers last year.