Nonstop flight route between Silver City, New Mexico, United States and Berlevåg, Norway:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Grant County Airport (SVC), Silver City, New Mexico, United States and Berlevåg Airport (BVG), Berlevåg, Norway would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,983 miles (or 8,019 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 Grant County Airport and Berlevåg 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 Grant County Airport and Berlevåg Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Grant County Airport (SVC):

• As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,607 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 1,860 enplanements in 2009, and 1,501 in 2010.
• Grant County Airport (SVC) has 4 runways.
• The furthest airport from Grant County Airport (SVC) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,404 miles (18,353 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Because of Grant County Airport's high elevation of 5,446 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at SVC. Combined with a high temperature, this could make SVC a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• The closest airport to Grant County Airport (SVC) is Deming Municipal AirportDeming Army Airfield (DMN), which is located 36 miles (58 kilometers) SE of SVC.

Facts about Berlevåg Airport (BVG):

• State funding was allocated, allowing the airport to be upgraded.
• Berlevåg Airport handled 5,949 passengers last year.
• On 11 March 1982 Widerøe Flight 933 crashed into the Barents Sea between Berlevåg and Mehamn Airport, after having made two intermediate stops since leaving Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen.
• During the German occupation of Norway during World War II, the German Wehrmacht was dependent on supplies to the town of Kirkenes which had to be shipped past Varanger Peninsula.
• The closest airport to Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Båtsfjord Airport (BJF), which is located 24 miles (39 kilometers) SE of BVG.
• Use of the airport area as a civilian airport was launched by Varangfly director Odd Bentzen in 1964.
• Because of Berlevåg Airport's relatively low elevation of 43 feet, planes can take off or land at Berlevåg 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 addition to being known as "Berlevåg Airport", another name for BVG is "Berlevåg lufthavn".
• The furthest airport from Berlevåg Airport (BVG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,376 miles (16,698 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.