Nonstop flight route between Yaoundé, Cameroon and Jacksonville, Florida, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI), Yaoundé, Cameroon and NAS Jacksonville (NIP), Jacksonville, Florida, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,282 miles (or 10,109 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 Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport and NAS Jacksonville, 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 Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport and NAS Jacksonville. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI):

• The furthest airport from Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI) is Canton Island Airport (CIS), which is nearly antipodal to Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (meaning Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Canton Island Airport), and is located 12,203 miles (19,638 kilometers) away in Canton Island, Kiribati.
• Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI) currently has only 1 runway.
• Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport handled 208,973 passengers last year.
• Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport covers 3065 acres at an elevation of 694 m, this includes one passenger terminal, one cargo terminal and the 6 aircraft stands.
• The closest airport to Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI) is Yaoundé Airport (YAO), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) NNW of NSI.
• In addition to being known as "Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport", another name for NSI is "Aéroport international de Yaoundé-Nsimalen".

Facts about NAS Jacksonville (NIP):

• The closest airport to NAS Jacksonville (NIP) is Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (CRG), which is located only 12 miles (19 kilometers) NE of NIP.
• Because of NAS Jacksonville's relatively low elevation of 22 feet, planes can take off or land at NAS Jacksonville 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.
• In addition to being known as "NAS Jacksonville", another name for NIP is "Towers Field".
• The furthest airport from NAS Jacksonville (NIP) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,460 miles (18,444 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• NAS Jacksonville is also an Aviation Maintenance training facility for several aviation ratings, facilitated by Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jacksonville.
• NAS Jacksonville (NIP) has 2 runways.
• In the mid-1950s, an air traffic control center for joint use by the Navy, Air Force, and Civil Aeronautics Administration was approved and completed at a cost of $325,000.
• The United States Air Force Air Defense Command established a Phase III Mobile Radar station at NAS Jacksonville in 1 July 1957 with the 679th Aircraft Warning and Control Squadron operating AN/FPS-3, AN/FPS-8, and AN/MPS-14 radars as part of the ADC radar network.
• A piece of history and Navy and Marine Corps tradition was lost in 1986 when the last unit of Marines left NAS Jacksonville.
• Prior to the commissioning, on September 7, Commander Jimmy Grant became the first pilot to land on the still unfinished runway in his N3N-3 biplane.