Nonstop flight route between Nyköping, Sweden and San Bernardino, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Stockholm Skavsta Airport (NYO), Nyköping, Sweden and Norton Air Force Base (SBD), San Bernardino, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,500 miles (or 8,851 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 Stockholm Skavsta Airport and Norton Air Force Base, 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 Stockholm Skavsta Airport and Norton Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Stockholm Skavsta Airport (NYO):

• Because of Stockholm Skavsta Airport's relatively low elevation of 140 feet, planes can take off or land at Stockholm Skavsta 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 Stockholm Skavsta Airport (NYO) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,257 miles (18,116 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The airport has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per annum and is designed for expansion in the future.
• In addition to being known as "Stockholm Skavsta Airport", another name for NYO is "Stockholm Skavsta flygplats".
• Stockholm Skavsta Airport (NYO) has 2 runways.
• The closest airport to Stockholm Skavsta Airport (NYO) is Norrköping Airport (NRK), which is located 28 miles (45 kilometers) WSW of NYO.

Facts about Norton Air Force Base (SBD):

• The furthest airport from Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,447 miles (18,423 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• In addition to being known as "Norton Air Force Base", another name for SBD is "Norton AFB".
• In 1955, the 27th AD established a Manual Air-Defense Control Center at Norton to monitor and track aircraft in Southern California.
• The closest airport to Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is San Bernardino International Airport (SBT), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) S of SBD.
• In the 1960s, Norton expanded its depot support mission by supporting Titan and Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles s, with depot-level logistical support.
• On 1 March 1942, the airport was renamed San Bernardino Army Air Field and the San Bernardino Air Depot was established there.
• For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command, then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command.
• Major secondary missions of Norton Air Force Base was as Headquarters Air Defense Command for Southern California, during the 1950s and 1960s.
• Norton Air Force Base was a United States Air Force facility located 2 miles east of downtown San Bernardino, California in San Bernardino County.