Nonstop flight route between Panama City, Florida, United States and Puerto Montt, Chile:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tyndall Air Force Base (PAM), Panama City, Florida, United States and El Tepual International Airport (PMC), Puerto Montt, Chile would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,005 miles (or 8,055 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 Tyndall Air Force Base and El Tepual International Airport, 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 Tyndall Air Force Base and El Tepual International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tyndall Air Force Base (PAM):

• In December 1940, a site board determined that Flexible Gunnery School No.
• Headquarters, First Air Force at Tyndall is part of the Air Combat Command, ensuring the air sovereignty and air defense of the continental United States.
• The closest airport to Tyndall Air Force Base (PAM) is Panama City–Bay County International Airport (PFN), which is located only 11 miles (18 kilometers) NW of PAM.
• The furthest airport from Tyndall Air Force Base (PAM) is Shark Bay Airport (MJK), which is located 11,235 miles (18,080 kilometers) away in Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia.
• In 1962 the search radar was upgraded and re-designated as an AN/FPS-64.
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• On 1 July 1956 Tyndall AFB became the station operating for the third phase of the ADC mobile radar program, being designated as TM-198.
• The height-finder radar, modified as an AN/FPS-116 c.

Facts about El Tepual International Airport (PMC):

• The furthest airport from El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Wuhai Airport (WUA), which is nearly antipodal to El Tepual International Airport (meaning El Tepual International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Wuhai Airport), and is located 12,323 miles (19,832 kilometers) away in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China.
• El Tepual International Airport (PMC) currently has only 1 runway.
• El Tepual airport can only cater to airplanes with the size of a Boeing 707 or smaller.
• El Tepual International Airport handled 1,000,000 passengers last year.
• The closest airport to El Tepual International Airport (PMC) is Frutillar Airport (FRT), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) N of PMC.
• Because of El Tepual International Airport's relatively low elevation of 294 feet, planes can take off or land at El Tepual 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.
• During the early 1990s, the numbers of international tourists grew considerably.
• In addition to being known as "El Tepual International Airport", another name for PMC is "Aeropuerto Internacional El Tepual".
• In 2004, the IDC estimated that one million passengers passed through the airport's gates, making it Chile's second busiest.
• LAN Airlines, as Lan Chile is currently known, has kept on operating services regularly at the airport along with more recent startups such as Sky Airline, with a number of charter airlines also flying to El Tepual.