Nonstop flight route between Sumter, South Carolina, United States and Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Shaw Air Force Base (SSC), Sumter, South Carolina, United States and Lebanon Municipal Airport (LEB), Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 798 miles (or 1,284 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 Shaw Air Force Base and Lebanon Municipal Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Shaw Air Force Base (SSC):

• Shaw Field was activated on 30 August 1941 and placed under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Corps Southeast Air Corps Training Center.
• For a brief time, Shaw Field also served as a prisoner-of-war camp.
• The closest airport to Shaw Air Force Base (SSC) is Sumter Airport (SUM), which is located only 7 miles (11 kilometers) ENE of SSC.
• The 20th Fighter Group was first equipped with North American P-51D, then exchanged its P-51's in February 1948 for F-84B Thunderjets, the first TAC group to receive operational F-84s.
• The furthest airport from Shaw Air Force Base (SSC) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,545 miles (18,580 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• The 66th TRW was formed at Shaw from the RB-26 assets of the 18th TRS and RF-80s transferred from South Korea.
• The 363rd Fighter Wing was inactivated at Shaw AFB on 31 December 1993, and the next day, 1 January 1994, the 20th Fighter Wing inactivated at RAF Upper Heyford and reactivated without personnel or equipment at Shaw AFB, returning to the base it had left for duty with NATO forty-one years earlier.

Facts about Lebanon Municipal Airport (LEB):

• Because of Lebanon Municipal Airport's relatively low elevation of 603 feet, planes can take off or land at Lebanon Municipal 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.
• In recent years, the airport has struggled due to competition with the much larger Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, 65 miles away.Colgan Air formerly offered non-stop flights from Lebanon to New York-La Guardia Airport operating as US Airways Express.
• The furthest airport from Lebanon Municipal Airport (LEB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,658 miles (18,762 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• On November 2, 2008, Cape Air began offering service to Boston.
• Lebanon Municipal Airport (LEB) has 2 runways.
• Lebanon Municipal Airport covers an area of 563 acres at an elevation of 603 feet above mean sea level.
• Lebanon Airport was served by Northeast Airlines before that airline was overtaken by Delta.
• The closest airport to Lebanon Municipal Airport (LEB) is Parlin Field (NWH), which is located only 17 miles (28 kilometers) SSE of LEB.