Nonstop flight route between Agana, Guam and San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Andersen Air Force Base (UAM), Agana, Guam and Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (TUC), San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,293 miles (or 16,565 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 Andersen Air Force Base and Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International 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 Andersen Air Force Base and Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Andersen Air Force Base (UAM):

• When the Communist forces overran South Vietnam later in 1975, the base provided emergency relief and shelter for thousands of Vietnamese evacuees as a part of Operation New Life.
• However, the FEAF Bomber Command was inactivated in 1954 and its three B-29 wings returned stateside and replaced with B-47s.
• The 3rd Air Division was activated on 18 June in its place, its object being control of all SAC units in the Far East.
• In 1951, the Strategic Air Command chose several overseas bases to support rotational unit deployments of its bombers from stateside bases, starting with B-29 Superfortress units and later including Convair B-36, B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress bombers, and KB-29 refueling tankers.
• The closest airport to Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Guam International Airport (GUM), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SW of UAM.
• Guam was considered as being ideal to establish air bases to launch B-29 Superfortress operations against the Japanese Home Islands.
• The furthest airport from Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho) (SSA), which is nearly antipodal to Andersen Air Force Base (meaning Andersen Air Force Base is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho)), and is located 12,214 miles (19,656 kilometers) away in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
• With hostilities in Korea at a standstill, the 19th Bomb Wing headquarters relocated to Kadena Air Base, Japan in 1953, and was replaced by the 6319th Air Base Wing of the Far East Air Forces.

Facts about Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (TUC):

• This airport replaced the old one, located on the Ninth of July Park, because of its bad location from the Plaza Independencia).
• The furthest airport from Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (TUC) is Jinggangshan Airport (JGS), which is nearly antipodal to Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (meaning Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Jinggangshan Airport), and is located 12,427 miles (19,999 kilometers) away in Ji'an, Jiangxi, China.
• On 9 April 2013, the runway heading changed from 01/19 to 02/20 due to magnetic variation.
• Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (TUC) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport", another name for TUC is "Aeropuerto Internacional de Tucumán".
• The Departing Sector was rebuilt in 2005.
• The closest airport to Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (TUC) is Vicecomodoro Ángel de la Paz Aragonés Airport (SDE), which is located 80 miles (129 kilometers) SE of TUC.