Nonstop flight route between San Antonio, Texas, United States and Pinedale, Wyoming, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (SKF), San Antonio, Texas, United States and Ralph Wenz Field (PWY), Pinedale, Wyoming, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,116 miles (or 1,797 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 Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio and Ralph Wenz Field, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (SKF):

• Today the Lackland ADC site has been taken over by the FAA and remains in operation.
• The furthest airport from Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (SKF) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,124 miles (17,902 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• The closest airport to Lackland Air Force Base Joint Base San Antonio (SKF) is Stinson Municipal Airport (SSF), which is located only 7 miles (12 kilometers) ESE of SKF.
• On 3 Feb 1948, the facility was named Lackland AFB after Brigadier General Frank Lackland, who was commissioned into the regular Army after serving in the National Guard, District of Columbia.
• During the 1960s, more permanent facilities were constructed, including four 1,000-person steel and brick Recruit Housing and Training dormitories built between 1966 and 1970 for basic military training by the Lackland Military Training Center.
• By late 1959 Lackland was also performing air-traffic-control duties for the Federal Aviation Administration.
• No other item in the 1960s compared to the incident that occurred at Lackland in February 1966 with the death of a basic trainee.
• In late 1951 Air Defense Command selected Lackland Air Force Base as one of twenty-eight radar stations built as part of the second segment of the permanent radar surveillance network.
• Lackland AFB is named after Brigadier General Frank Lackland.

Facts about Ralph Wenz Field (PWY):

• The furthest airport from Ralph Wenz Field (PWY) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,796 miles (17,375 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Because of Ralph Wenz Field's high elevation of 7,086 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at PWY. Combined with a high temperature, this could make PWY a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Ralph Wenz Field (PWY) is Miley Memorial Field (BPI), which is located 21 miles (34 kilometers) SW of PWY.
• Ralph Wenz Field (PWY) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Ralph Wenz Field", another name for PWY is "PNA".