Nonstop flight route between San Bernardino, California, United States and Loei, Thailand:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Norton Air Force Base (SBD), San Bernardino, California, United States and Loei Airport (LOE), Loei, Thailand would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,050 miles (or 12,955 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 Norton Air Force Base and Loei 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 Norton Air Force Base and Loei Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Norton Air Force Base (SBD):

• In addition to being known as "Norton Air Force Base", another name for SBD is "Norton AFB".
• The furthest airport from Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,447 miles (18,423 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• The closest airport to Norton Air Force Base (SBD) is San Bernardino International Airport (SBT), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) S of SBD.
• LAADS was inactivated on 1 April 1966 and the designation was returned as the 27th Air Division, being stationed at Luke AFB, Arizona under Fourth Air Force as part of a consolidation with the inactivating Phoenix Air Defense Sector.
• For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command, then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command.
• The last of the facilities on the base were closed in 1995.
• With the air force moving into the jet age in the late 1940s, Norton began overhauling jet engines in 1951, and the San Bernardino Air Materiel Area became one of three air force jet overhaul centers by 1953.

Facts about Loei Airport (LOE):

• In addition to being known as "Loei Airport", another name for LOE is "ท่าอากาศยานเลย".
• Loei Airport (LOE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Loei Airport (LOE) is Maria Reiche Neuman Airport (NZC), which is nearly antipodal to Loei Airport (meaning Loei Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Maria Reiche Neuman Airport), and is located 12,153 miles (19,559 kilometers) away in Nazca, Ica Region, Peru.
• Because of Loei Airport's relatively low elevation of 860 feet, planes can take off or land at Loei 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.
• The closest airport to Loei Airport (LOE) is Phetchabun Airport (PHY), which is located 63 miles (102 kilometers) SSW of LOE.