Nonstop flight route between Pueblo, Colorado, United States and Santa Barbara, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB), Pueblo, Colorado, United States and Santa Barbara Airport (SBA), Santa Barbara, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 893 miles (or 1,438 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 Pueblo Memorial Airport and Santa Barbara Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB):

• 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.
• 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.
• In 1948 it was handed over to the City of Pueblo.
• 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 Pueblo Airport is a popular starting point for the growing population of cyclists in the city.
• Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB) has 3 runways.
• In addition to being known as "Pueblo Memorial Airport", another name for PUB is "Pueblo Army Air Base".
• Pueblo Memorial Airport covers 3,872 acres at an elevation of 4,729 feet above mean sea level.
• Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 4,345 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 5,192 in 2009 and 11,641 in 2010.
• 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.

Facts about Santa Barbara Airport (SBA):

• The furthest airport from Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,487 miles (18,486 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• The largest passenger jet currently serving Santa Barbara is the Airbus A319 operated by Frontier Airlines nonstop to Denver.
• As airplane manufacturing grew in the late 1930s that airstrip developed into an airfield.
• Until 2002 Santa Barbara Airport was on a mainline jet aircraft route between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• In the 1951 war film Flying Leathernecks, John Wayne's character was stationed in Goleta.
• Because of Santa Barbara Airport's relatively low elevation of 10 feet, planes can take off or land at Santa Barbara 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.
• American Airlines started nonstop McDonnell Douglas MD-80s to Dallas Fort-Worth International in 1984, sometimes on a triangle routing of DFW-Burbank-SBA-DFW or DFW-Bakersfield-SBA-DFW.
• The closest airport to Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) is Santa Ynez Airport (SQA), which is located only 18 miles (29 kilometers) NW of SBA.
• It is near the University of California, Santa Barbara and the city of Goleta.
• Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) has 3 runways.
• In 1947 the Santa Barbara Flying Club was formed to promote general aviation in the region.