Nonstop flight route between Longreach, Queensland, Australia and Moruya, New South Wales, Australia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Longreach Airport (LRE), Longreach, Queensland, Australia and Moruya Airport (MYA), Moruya, New South Wales, Australia would travel a Great Circle distance of 930 miles (or 1,496 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 relatively short distance between Longreach Airport and Moruya Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Longreach Airport (LRE):

• Longreach Airport (LRE) currently has only 1 runway.
• Charles Kingsford Smith arrived in 1927, during a flight around the continent.
• The closest airport to Longreach Airport (LRE) is Barcaldine Airport (BCI), which is located 66 miles (106 kilometers) E of LRE.
• In 1990, the Department of Aviation closed the Longreach Flight Service Unit, the descendant of the Aeradio station opened in 1941.
• Longreach has played a major part in Australian aviation from 1919 onwards.
• In 1941, the Department of Civil Aviation established the Longreach Aeradio station at the airport.
• Because of Longreach Airport's relatively low elevation of 627 feet, planes can take off or land at Longreach 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 2002, Qantas returned to the town, with a Boeing 747-238B aircraft, registered VH-EBQ and named City of Bunbury, flown into the town for static display at the Qantas Founders Outback Museum, which is also sited at the airport.
• The furthest airport from Longreach Airport (LRE) is Agostinho Neto Airport (NTO), which is located 11,625 miles (18,709 kilometers) away in Ponta do Sol, Santo Antão, Cape Verde.
• The first overland flight across the Australian continent from Melbourne to Darwin passed through the airport in 1919.

Facts about Moruya Airport (MYA):

• The furthest airport from Moruya Airport (MYA) is Horta International Airport (HOR), which is nearly antipodal to Moruya Airport (meaning Moruya Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Horta International Airport), and is located 12,245 miles (19,707 kilometers) away in Horta, Azores, Portugal.
• The closest airport to Moruya Airport (MYA) is Canberra Airport (CBR), which is located 67 miles (108 kilometers) NW of MYA.
• Moruya Airport (MYA) has 2 runways.
• Because of Moruya Airport's relatively low elevation of 17 feet, planes can take off or land at Moruya 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.