Nonstop flight route between Sumter, South Carolina, United States and Mitú, Colombia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Shaw Air Force Base (SSC), Sumter, South Carolina, United States and Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP), Mitú, Colombia would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,356 miles (or 3,791 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 Fabio Alberto León Bentley 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):

• The 66th TRW was formed at Shaw from the RB-26 assets of the 18th TRS and RF-80s transferred from South Korea.
• 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 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 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.
• Over the next four decades, the squadrons under the 363d TRW changed frequently.
• The 432nd's mission at Shaw AFB was to assume the reconnaissance training mission that was handled previously by the 363d TRW.
• Shaw Air Force Base is a United States Military facility located approximately 8.4 miles west-northwest of Sumter, South Carolina.
• Shaw Army Airfield was designated a permanent Army Air Forces instantiation after the war, being transferred to Continental Air Forces on 16 April 1945.

Facts about Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP):

• The closest airport to Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP) is La Pedrera Airport (LPD), which is located 184 miles (296 kilometers) SSE of MVP.
• In addition to being known as "Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport", another name for MVP is "Aeropuerto Fabio Alberto León Bentley".
• Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (MVP) is Rahadi Usman Airport (KTG), which is nearly antipodal to Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport (meaning Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Rahadi Usman Airport), and is located 12,396 miles (19,949 kilometers) away in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
• Because of Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport's relatively low elevation of 680 feet, planes can take off or land at Fabio Alberto León Bentley 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.