Nonstop flight route between Nosara, Costa Rica and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Nosara Airport (NOB), Nosara, Costa Rica and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,790 miles (or 2,881 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 Nosara Airport and Pope Field, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Nosara Airport (NOB):

• Nosara Airport (NOB) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Nosara Airport (NOB) is Playa Sámara/Carrillo Airport (RIK), which is located only 14 miles (22 kilometers) ESE of NOB.
• The furthest airport from Nosara Airport (NOB) is Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport (CCK), which is nearly antipodal to Nosara Airport (meaning Nosara Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cocos (Keeling) Island Airport), and is located 12,209 miles (19,649 kilometers) away in Cocos Islands, Australia.
• Because of Nosara Airport's relatively low elevation of 33 feet, planes can take off or land at Nosara 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.

Facts about Pope Field (POB):

• The tempo of activities at Pope quickened with the outbreak of World War II.
• The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• On January 1, 1992 the 317th TAW was reassigned to Air Mobility Command and the wing was redesignated the 317th Operations Group as part of the new 23d Composite Wing at Pope.
• The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
• The 10th TRG was inactivated on April 1, 1949 and the host unit at Pope was the 4415th Air Base Group.
• Original operations included photographing terrain for mapping, carrying the mail, and spotting for artillery and forest fires.
• The 464th received the Mackay Trophy for the dramatic RED DRAGON/DRAGON ROUGE and BLACK DRAGON/DRAGON NOIR hostage rescue missions in the Congo in 1964.