Nonstop flight route between Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States and Berlevåg, Norway:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States and Berlevåg Airport (BVG), Berlevåg, Norway would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,321 miles (or 6,953 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 Pope Field and Berlevåg 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 Pope Field and Berlevåg Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | POB / KPOB |
| Airport Name: | Pope Field |
| Location: | Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States |
| GPS Coordinates: | 35°10'14"N by 79°0'51"W |
| View all routes: | Routes from POB |
| More Information: | POB Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | BVG / ENBV |
| Airport Names: |
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| Location: | Berlevåg, Norway |
| GPS Coordinates: | 70°52'17"N by 29°2'3"E |
| Operator/Owner: | Avinor |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 43 feet (13 meters) |
| View all routes: | Routes from BVG |
| More Information: | BVG Maps & Info |
Facts about Pope Field (POB):
- In 1918, Congress established Camp Bragg, an Army field artillery site named for the Confederate General Braxton Bragg.
- The 10th TRG was inactivated on April 1, 1949 and the host unit at Pope was the 4415th Air Base Group.
- The United States Army Fort Bragg Garrison is the host organization at Pope Field.
- The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
- The drop zones, low-level routes, and dirt landing zones at Fort Bragg became familiar to many men bound for Southeast Asia.
- The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- On September 21, 1954, Ninth AF turned Pope over to the 464th Troop Carrier Wing which transferred from Lawson AFB, Georgia.
Facts about Berlevåg Airport (BVG):
- On 11 March 1982 Widerøe Flight 933 crashed into the Barents Sea between Berlevåg and Mehamn Airport, after having made two intermediate stops since leaving Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen.
- In addition to being known as "Berlevåg Airport", another name for BVG is "Berlevåg lufthavn".
- Berlevåg Airport handled 5,949 passengers last year.
- Because of Berlevåg Airport's relatively low elevation of 43 feet, planes can take off or land at Berlevåg 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 German occupation of Norway during World War II, the German Wehrmacht was dependent on supplies to the town of Kirkenes which had to be shipped past Varanger Peninsula.
- The terminal building is 360 square meters, of which 110 square meters is for the public, and has a capacity for 70 passengers per hour.
- The furthest airport from Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,376 miles (16,698 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- Use of the airport area as a civilian airport was launched by Varangfly director Odd Bentzen in 1964.
- The closest airport to Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Båtsfjord Airport (BJF), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) SE of BVG.
