Nonstop flight route between May Creek, Alaska, United States and Newburgh, New York, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between May Creek Airport (MYK), May Creek, Alaska, United States and Stewart International Airport (SWF), Newburgh, New York, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,078 miles (or 4,954 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 May Creek Airport and Stewart International 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 May Creek Airport and Stewart International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about May Creek Airport (MYK):

• May Creek Airport (MYK) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to May Creek Airport (MYK) is McCarthy Airport (MXY), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) NW of MYK.
• The furthest airport from May Creek Airport (MYK) is Port Elizabeth International Airport (PLZ), which is located 10,477 miles (16,861 kilometers) away in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
• May Creek Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile south of the central business district of May Creek, in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S.

Facts about Stewart International Airport (SWF):

• The closest airport to Stewart International Airport (SWF) is Orange County Airport (MGJ), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) W of SWF.
• In the early 1970s, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's administration saw the potential for Stewart to support the metropolitan area.
• In 1981 the 52 American hostages held in Iran made their return to American soil at Stewart.
• Stewart International Airport (SWF) has 2 runways.
• Also generating a lot of noise was the continuing debate in Orange County about what to do with the land, with participants' choice of words suggesting where they stood, and interpretations differing about just how much of the land was really meant to serve as a buffer.
• The furthest airport from Stewart International Airport (SWF) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,712 miles (18,848 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• In 1997 the state formally began, through the Empire State Development Corporation, the process of soliciting bids for a 99-year lease on the airport and, potentially, the adjacent undeveloped lands as well, whatever bidders wanted.
• Because of Stewart International Airport's relatively low elevation of 491 feet, planes can take off or land at Stewart International 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.
• The Metropolitan Transportation Authority was the first government body to try to convert it into the New York metropolitan area's fourth major airport.
• The privatization effectively ended in 2007, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board voted to acquire the remaining 93 years of the lease.