Nonstop flight route between Sandefjord / Stokke, Norway and West Chicago, Illinois, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF), Sandefjord / Stokke, Norway and DuPage Airport (DPA), West Chicago, Illinois, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,066 miles (or 6,544 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 Sandefjord Airport, Torp and DuPage 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 Sandefjord Airport, Torp and DuPage Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF):

• Because of Sandefjord Airport, Torp's relatively low elevation of 285 feet, planes can take off or land at Sandefjord Airport, Torp 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.
• Even though it is more than twice as far, 118 km, from Oslo as Gardermoen, Oslo's principal airport, and it lacks high-speed rail transport to Oslo, the low-cost airlines market Sandefjord as Oslo-Torp or Oslo-Sandefjord.
• Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF) currently has only 1 runway.
• The first civilian aircraft to land was a Douglas DC-3 from Fred Olsen Air Transport in 1958.
• The furthest airport from Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 11,337 miles (18,245 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• The air traffic employees in the control tower worked for the Civil Aviation Administration.
• The closest airport to Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF) is Moss Airport, Rygge (RYG), which is located 23 miles (37 kilometers) NE of TRF.
• Sandefjord Airport, Torp handled 1,345,732 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "Sandefjord Airport, Torp", another name for TRF is "Sandefjord lufthavn, Torp".
• In June 2006 the airport decided to invest NOK 24 million to expand the terminal.

Facts about DuPage Airport (DPA):

• The closest airport to DuPage Airport (DPA) is Chicago/Aurora Municipal Airport (AUZ), which is located only 15 miles (24 kilometers) SW of DPA.
• Because of DuPage Airport's relatively low elevation of 759 feet, planes can take off or land at DuPage 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.
• The furthest airport from DuPage Airport (DPA) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,056 miles (17,792 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• DuPage Airport (DPA) has 4 runways.
• The DuPage Airport Authority owns 2,800 acres and operates four separate business units.
• In June 2010, the board of the DuPage National Technology Park, an 800-acre technology park that secured a $34 million state grant called for the dissolution of their organization.
• However, planners learned a lesson from the plight of the beleaguered, land-locked Midway Airport.