Nonstop flight route between Ontario (near Los Angeles), California, United States and Junction City, Kansas, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), Ontario (near Los Angeles), California, United States and Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI), Junction City, Kansas, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,204 miles (or 1,937 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 LA/Ontario International Airport and Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT):

• The furthest airport from LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,460 miles (18,443 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• The airport is about 38 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, 18 miles west of downtown San Bernardino and 14 miles northwest of downtown Riverside.
• Because of LA/Ontario International Airport's relatively low elevation of 944 feet, planes can take off or land at LA/Ontario International 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.
• Terminal 2 has 265,000 square feet and 12 gates.
• For a number of years, the airport operated alongside Ontario Air National Guard Station, which was closed as a result of the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
• The closest airport to LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) is Chino Airport (CNO), which is located only 6 miles (10 kilometers) SSW of ONT.
• In 2013, LAWA offered to return the airport to local control for a purchase price of $474mm, which was rejected.
• LA/Ontario International Airport handled 4,812,006 passengers last year.
• LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) has 2 runways.

Facts about Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI):

• The furthest airport from Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,654 miles (17,146 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• During the war the old strips had to be surfaced and lengthened to take increased traffic and heavier, faster planes.
• In 1921, Colonel Fred Herman selected the Smoky Hill Flats across the Kansas River as the location for a new airfield.
• The closest airport to Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI) is Manhattan Regional Airport (MHK), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) NE of FRI.
• In addition to being known as "Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base", another name for FRI is "Marshall AAF".
• A base detachment activated in January 1941 to operate the field was designated in January 1942 as the 305th Air Base Squadron, but in June it was renamed the 305th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron.
• With the establishment of the United States Air Force in September 1947, the name of Marchall was changed to Marshall Air Force Base.
• Thanks to conflict-driven innovations in flight and cargo hauling operations, helicopters assumed a much larger peacetime Army role after the Korean War.