Nonstop flight route between Tampa, Florida, United States and Batom, Indonesia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between MacDill Air Force Base (MCF), Tampa, Florida, United States and Batom Airport (BXM), Batom, Indonesia would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,146 miles (or 14,719 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 MacDill Air Force Base and Batom 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 MacDill Air Force Base and Batom Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about MacDill Air Force Base (MCF):

• The host unit at MacDill AFB is the 6th Air Mobility Wing, assigned to the Air Mobility Command's 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force.
• In addition to being known as "MacDill Air Force Base", another name for MCF is "MacDill AFB".
• The closest airport to MacDill Air Force Base (MCF) is Peter O. Knight Airport (TPF), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) NE of MCF.
• MacDill AFB was established in 1939 as Southeast Air Base, Tampa.
• Beginning in January 1944, the 11th Photographic Group used MacDill for its mission of photographic mapping in the US and sent detachments to carry out similar operations in Africa, the CBI theater, the Near and Middle East, Mexico, Canada, Alaska, and the Caribbean.
• After the war in Europe had broken out in September 1939, fears of Nazi U-Boats attacking American shipping in the Gulf of Mexico was the concern of the War Department.
• In addition to the antisubmarine mission, another prewar mission of MacDill was "Project X" the ferrying of combat aircraft eastward to the Philippines via ferrying routes set up by Ferrying Command over South Atlantic Ocean and Central Africa.
• The furthest airport from MacDill Air Force Base (MCF) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,436 miles (18,405 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Batom Airport (BXM):

• The closest airport to Batom Airport (BXM) is Sentani Airport (SNA) (DJJ), which is located 66 miles (107 kilometers) ESE of BXM.
• Batom Airport (BXM) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Batom Airport (BXM) is Parnaíba–Prefeito Dr. João Silva Filho International Airport (PHB), which is nearly antipodal to Batom Airport (meaning Batom Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Parnaíba–Prefeito Dr. João Silva Filho International Airport), and is located 12,068 miles (19,421 kilometers) away in Parnaiba, Piaui, Brazil.