Nonstop flight route between Leonora, Western Australia, Australia and Fort Sumner, New Mexico, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Leonora Airport (LNO), Leonora, Western Australia, Australia and Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (FSU), Fort Sumner, New Mexico, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,754 miles (or 15,698 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 Leonora Airport and Fort Sumner Municipal 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 Leonora Airport and Fort Sumner Municipal Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | LNO / YLEO |
Airport Name: | Leonora Airport |
Location: | Leonora, Western Australia, Australia |
GPS Coordinates: | 28°52'41"S by 121°18'56"E |
Operator/Owner: | Shire of Leonora |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 1217 feet (371 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from LNO |
More Information: | LNO Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | FSU / KFSU |
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Location: | Fort Sumner, New Mexico, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 34°29'16"N by 104°13'0"W |
Area Served: | Fort Sumner, New Mexico |
Operator/Owner: | Village of Fort Sumner |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 4165 feet (1,269 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from FSU |
More Information: | FSU Maps & Info |
Facts about Leonora Airport (LNO):
- Leonora Airport (LNO) has 2 runways.
- The closest airport to Leonora Airport (LNO) is Murrin Murrin Airport (WUI), which is located 37 miles (59 kilometers) ENE of LNO.
- The furthest airport from Leonora Airport (LNO) is L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA), which is nearly antipodal to Leonora Airport (meaning Leonora Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from L.F. Wade International Airport), and is located 12,007 miles (19,323 kilometers) away in Ferry Reach (near Hamilton), Bermuda.
Facts about Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (FSU):
- Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (FSU) has 2 runways.
- The facility was inactivated on November 15, 1945 and returned to civil control.
- In addition to being known as "Fort Sumner Municipal Airport", another name for FSU is "Fort Sumner Army Airfield".
- Because of Fort Sumner Municipal Airport's high elevation of 4,165 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at FSU. Combined with a high temperature, this could make FSU a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The closest airport to Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (FSU) is Cannon Air Force Base Clovis Air Force Base/AAF (CVS), which is located 51 miles (83 kilometers) E of FSU.
- The furthest airport from Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (FSU) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,167 miles (17,971 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- The airfield's origins date to the 1920s when the Transcontinental Air Transport airline built an airfield in Fort Sumner as part of its coast-to-coast air passenger network, but the site was abandoned when the airline's ambitious plans collapsed in the Great Depression.