Nonstop flight route between Hanapepe, Hawaii, United States and Rapid City, South Dakota, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Port Allen Airport (PAK), Hanapepe, Hawaii, United States and Ellsworth Air Force Base (RCA), Rapid City, South Dakota, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,536 miles (or 5,690 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 Port Allen Airport and Ellsworth 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 Port Allen Airport and Ellsworth 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 Port Allen Airport (PAK):

• Port Allen Airport is part of a centralized state structure governing all of the airports and seaports of Hawai'i.
• Port Allen Airport is a regional airport of the State of Hawai'i.
• Port Allen Airport (PAK) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Port Allen Airport (PAK) is Ghanzi Airport (GNZ), which is nearly antipodal to Port Allen Airport (meaning Port Allen Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ghanzi Airport), and is located 12,355 miles (19,883 kilometers) away in Ghanzi, Botswana.
• Because of Port Allen Airport's relatively low elevation of 24 feet, planes can take off or land at Port Allen 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.
• In addition to being known as "Port Allen Airport", another name for PAK is "PHPA".
• The closest airport to Port Allen Airport (PAK) is PMRF Barking Sands (BKH), which is located only 15 miles (23 kilometers) NW of PAK.

Facts about Ellsworth Air Force Base (RCA):

• After the Army closed their facilities, the military housing at the Nike Integrated Fire Control sites was transferred to control of Ellsworth, and was used as Air Force military family housing until about 1990.
• On 2 January 1942, the U.S.
• The closest airport to Ellsworth Air Force Base (RCA) is Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP), which is located only 7 miles (11 kilometers) S of RCA.
• The base experienced one of its worst peacetime tragedies in March 1953 when an RB-36 and its entire crew of 23 crashed in Newfoundland while returning from a routine exercise in Europe.
• In addition to being known as "Ellsworth Air Force Base", another name for RCA is "Ellsworth AFB".
• The furthest airport from Ellsworth Air Force Base (RCA) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,579 miles (17,026 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Internationally, the destruction of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 symbolized the imminent demise of the Soviet Union over the next several months.
• The host unit at Ellsworth is the 28th Bomb Wing assigned to the Air Combat Command's Twelfth Air Force.