Nonstop flight route between Novato, California, United States and Paris, France:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Marin County Airport (NOT), Novato, California, United States and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), Paris, France would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,544 miles (or 8,922 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 Marin County Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle 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 Marin County Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Marin County Airport (NOT):

• Gnoss Field is known to local pilots and flight instructors as an excellent airport to practice crosswind landings, especially during afternoons in the late spring and summer when the west wind picks up.
• Gnoss has two windsocks.
• The typical Gnoss Field crosswind landing conditions on runway 31 are a stronger than reported headwind on right base and, in a typical training aircraft, a slight amount of wind shear about 100 feet before the runway 31 threshold, settling down to a steady crosswind - but then adding to a slight headwind component, just past the near west side hangars.
• In addition to being known as "Marin County Airport", other names for NOT include "Gnoss Field" and "DVO".
• The Wrights original privately owned airport had a dirt runway and was just west of the current airport, in what is now a grassy field.
• AWOS reports more closely conditions on the 31 end of the runway, and wind conditions are commonly significantly different on each end of the runway.
• Marin County Airport (NOT) currently has only 1 runway.
• Because of Marin County Airport's relatively low elevation of 2 feet, planes can take off or land at Marin County 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 closest airport to Marin County Airport (NOT) is Napa County Airport (APC), which is located only 16 miles (25 kilometers) ENE of NOT.
• Marin County Airport or Gnoss Field, formerly O56, is a public airport two miles northeast of Novato.
• The furthest airport from Marin County Airport (NOT) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,343 miles (18,254 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.

Facts about Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG):

• In 2013, the airport handled 62,052,917 passengers and 497,763 aircraft movements, making it the world's eighth busiest airport and Europe's second busiest airport in passengers served.
• In addition to being known as "Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport", other names for CDG include "Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle" and "Roissy Airport".
• After the last RER B of 23:50, the Noctilien night bus N143 and N140 departs every half-hour and hour respectively from terminal 1 door D12, terminal 2F door 2 and Roissypôle at Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1.
• The passage between the third, fourth and fifth floors is done through a tangle of escalators arranged in the centre of the building.
• Because of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's relatively low elevation of 392 feet, planes can take off or land at Paris Charles de Gaulle 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 furthest airport from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (meaning Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,074 miles (19,432 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• CDG airport is connected to Paris by the RER B suburban route.
• The closest airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) is Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LBG), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) WSW of CDG.
• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport handled 62,052,917 passengers last year.
• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) has 4 runways.
• The completion of 750 m long Satellite 3 to the immediate east of Terminals 2E and 2F provides further jetways for large-capacity airliners, specifically the Airbus A380.