Nonstop flight route between Millington, Tennessee, United States and New York City, New York, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Millington Regional Jetport (NQA), Millington, Tennessee, United States and LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 946 miles (or 1,522 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 Millington Regional Jetport and LaGuardia Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Millington Regional Jetport (NQA):

• Millington Regional Jetport (NQA) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Millington Regional Jetport (NQA) is Memphis International Airport (MEM), which is located 23 miles (36 kilometers) SSW of NQA.
• During the postwar period of the mid-1940s through the mid-1990s, NAS Memphis hosted numerous locally-based Naval Air Reserve and Marine Air Reserve flying squadrons, as well as a major naval air technical training center that provided the bulk of enlisted aviation speciality training for the US Navy and Marine Corps.
• The furthest airport from Millington Regional Jetport (NQA) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,018 miles (17,731 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of Millington Regional Jetport's relatively low elevation of 320 feet, planes can take off or land at Millington Regional Jetport 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 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission report resulted in significant changes to the base's mission and its redesignation in 1995 as Naval Support Activity Memphis.

Facts about LaGuardia Airport (LGA):

• The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport and opened for business on December 2 of that year.
• Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world." Even before the project was completed LaGuardia had won commitments from the five largest airlines that they would begin using the new field as soon as it opened.
• In 1986, Pan Am restarted flights at the MAT with the purchase of New York Air's shuttle service between Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
• Because of American's pivotal role in the development of the airport, LaGuardia gave the airline extra real estate during the airport's first year of operation, including four hangars.
• LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,754 miles (18,917 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• Although LaGuardia was a large airport for the era in which it was built, it soon became too small.
• Because of LaGuardia Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at LaGuardia 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 LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Flushing Airport (closed 1984) (FLU), which is located only 2 miles (3 kilometers) E of LGA.
• The New York City metropolitan area's JFK International, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty International airports combine to create the largest airport system in the United States, second in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in the world in terms of total flight operations.