Nonstop flight route between Pueblo, Colorado, United States and Maun, Botswana:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB), Pueblo, Colorado, United States and Maun Airport (MUB), Maun, Botswana would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,099 miles (or 14,643 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 Pueblo Memorial Airport and Maun 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 Pueblo Memorial Airport and Maun Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB):

• Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB) has 3 runways.
• Runways 8R/26L and 17/35 are asphalt with a porous friction course overlay to improve surface drainage and increase aircraft braking action.
• Because of Pueblo Memorial Airport's high elevation of 4,729 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at PUB. Combined with a high temperature, this could make PUB a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Prior to commencing jet service, the original Frontier Airlines had nonstop and direct flights to Denver and Santa Fe, NM with Convair 580s and flew direct to Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson and other cities in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
• In addition to being known as "Pueblo Memorial Airport", another name for PUB is "Pueblo Army Air Base".
• Built in 1941 as the Pueblo Army Air Base, it was used as an advanced flying school to train B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator four engine heavy bomber crews.
• Pueblo Memorial Airport covers 3,872 acres at an elevation of 4,729 feet above mean sea level.
• The furthest airport from Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,964 miles (17,645 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB) is City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (COS), which is located 37 miles (60 kilometers) NNW of PUB.
• The history of the Air Base is preserved with the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society and its Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.
• Three airlines had scheduled jet flights in the past.

Facts about Maun Airport (MUB):

• The furthest airport from Maun Airport (MUB) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Maun Airport (meaning Maun Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,399 miles (19,954 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.
• The earliest known flights over the Okavango region took place in July 1925, and were part of a survey of the rivers of the Okavango region, using aircraft based in Livingstone.
• The closest airport to Maun Airport (MUB) is Ghanzi Airport (GNZ), which is located 165 miles (266 kilometers) SW of MUB.
• The first planes to land here were before World War II – in the 1930s, just a mere 30 or so years after the Wright brothers made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• Maun Airport (MUB) currently has only 1 runway.
• In March 2000 a Cessna 414 crashed on its way from Gaborone to Maun.