Nonstop flight route between Salina, Kansas, United States and Silchar, India:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Salina Regional Airport (SLN), Salina, Kansas, United States and Silchar Airport (IXS), Silchar, India would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,982 miles (or 12,846 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 Salina Regional Airport and Silchar 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 Salina Regional Airport and Silchar Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Salina Regional Airport (SLN):

• SeaPort Airlines operates five inbound and outbound flights at Salina Municipal Airport Monday through Friday, two inbound and one outbound flights on Saturday, and three inbound and outbound flights on Sunday.
• Salina Regional Airport (SLN) has 4 runways.
• The furthest airport from Salina Regional Airport (SLN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,701 miles (17,222 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 5,170 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 2,868 in 2009 and 3,144 in 2010.
• The airport is on the site of the former Schilling Air Force Base.
• The closest airport to Salina Regional Airport (SLN) is Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI), which is located 51 miles (82 kilometers) ENE of SLN.

Facts about Silchar Airport (IXS):

• - 19 October 1988 - A Fokker F27 of Vayudoot was on a scheduled flight from Silchar to Guwahati when it disappeared on approach to the airport.
• In addition to being known as "Silchar Airport", other names for IXS include "Kumbhirgram Air Force Base", "শিলচর বিমানবন্দর" and "কুম্ভীরগ্রাম বায়ুসেনা বেস".
• Because of Silchar Airport's relatively low elevation of 352 feet, planes can take off or land at Silchar 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.
• Silchar Airport (IXS) currently has only 1 runway.
• - 29 August 1970 – A Fokker F-27 Friendship 400 flight of Indian Airlines struck a hill shortly after take-off from Silchar for a flight to Guwahati.
• The closest airport to Silchar Airport (IXS) is Imphal International Airport (IMF), which is located 59 miles (94 kilometers) E of IXS.
• Previously silchar was also served by Vayudoot between late 80's and 90's and then by Air Deccan which started flights between kolkata and silchar back in November 2005 then later on it became Kingfisher Red in 2008 but the airline stopped operating from silchar on February 2012.
• - 2006 - A Boeing 737-200 aircraft of Alliance Air which was operating as CD7253 from kolkata to silchar faces a technical problem with its Flaps while attempting to land at silchar airport, after hovering over silchar for about 20 minutes the pilots then decided to take the aircraft back to kolkata as the runway in kolkata is large enough to make an emergency landing without the flaps.
• After a long wait for many years the runway and apron extension work finally stabilized on August 2007 and then the last Boeing 737-200 flight took off for Kolkata on 2 September 2007 which was operated by Alliance Air and from the next day itself Air India started operating Airbus A320 on Kolkata route as the old Boeing 737-200 aircraft were not in safety zone in terms of flying purpose.
• Conveyor belt no.1 at silchar airport
• The furthest airport from Silchar Airport (IXS) is Chañaral Airport (CNR), which is located 11,410 miles (18,363 kilometers) away in Chañaral, Atacama Region, Chile.
• - 18 March 1944 - A Douglas C-47A-70-DL bearing registration number:42-100703 of United States Army Air Force crashed near silchar airport.