Nonstop flight route between Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia and Marysville, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tom Price Airport (TPR), Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia and Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,812 miles (or 14,181 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 Tom Price Airport and Beale Air Force Base, 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 Tom Price Airport and Beale Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Tom Price Airport (TPR):

• In December 2008, Rio Tinto lodged an application with the Shire of Ashburton to upgrade the runway and facilities to handle Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 size aircraft.
• However, on 16 January 2009, suffering the effects of lower demand and ore prices as a result of the global financial crisis, these plans were scrapped as Rio's capital expenditure program was cut.
• In addition to being known as "Tom Price Airport", another name for TPR is "YTMP".
• The furthest airport from Tom Price Airport (TPR) is Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport (AXA), which is nearly antipodal to Tom Price Airport (meaning Tom Price Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport), and is located 12,117 miles (19,501 kilometers) away in The Valley, Anguilla.
• Tom Price Airport (TPR) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Tom Price Airport (TPR) is Paraburdoo Airport (PBO), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) SSW of TPR.

Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• The host unit at Beale is the 9th Reconnaissance Wing assigned to the Air Combat Command and part of Twelfth Air Force.
• In 1940, the "Camp Beale" area consisted of grassland and rolling hills and the 19th century mining town of Spenceville.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".
• On 30 January 1959, the Air Force announced plans to conduct surveys in the vicinity of Beale to determine the feasibility for missile bases.
• Located in a cantonment area on the outskirts of Beale, the renamed 7th Space Warning Squadron is now an Air Force Space Command unit and it primarily uses its PAVE PAWS radar to detect submarine-launched ballistic missiles and disintegrating spacecraft and space debris.
• The 940th Wing is a Reconnaissance, Command & Control and Intelligence unit assigned to the United States Air Force Reserve.
• Half of the aircraft were maintained on 15-minute alert, fully fueled, armed, and ready for combat.
• The closest airport to Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Yuba County Airport (MYV), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) WSW of BAB.
• In 1962, in order to retain the lineage of its MAJCOM 4-digit combat units and to perpetuate the lineage of many currently inactive bombardment units with illustrious World War II records, Headquarters SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue its MAJCOM strategic wings that were equipped with combat aircraft and to activate AFCON units, most of which were inactive at the time which could carry a lineage and history.
• The furthest airport from Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,251 miles (18,107 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.