Nonstop flight route between Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico and Maun, Botswana:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport (UPN), Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico and Maun Airport (MUB), Maun, Botswana would travel a Great Circle distance of 8,906 miles (or 14,332 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 Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport and Maun 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 Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport and Maun Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | UPN / MMPN |
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Location: | Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico |
GPS Coordinates: | 19°23'48"N by 102°2'21"W |
Operator/Owner: | Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 5258 feet (1,603 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from UPN |
More Information: | UPN Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | MUB / FBMN |
Airport Name: | Maun Airport |
Location: | Maun, Botswana |
GPS Coordinates: | 19°58'21"S by 23°25'51"E |
Area Served: | Maun |
Operator/Owner: | Botswana Department of Civil Aviation |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 3093 feet (943 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from MUB |
More Information: | MUB Maps & Info |
Facts about Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport (UPN):
- In addition to being known as "Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport", another name for UPN is "Aeropuerto Internacional de Uruapan".
- The furthest airport from Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport (UPN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,486 miles (18,485 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- Because of Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport's high elevation of 5,258 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at UPN. Combined with a high temperature, this could make UPN a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
- The closest airport to Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport (UPN) is General Francisco Mujica International Airport (MLM), which is located 73 miles (118 kilometers) ENE of UPN.
- Lic. y Gen. Ignacio Lopez Rayon International Airport (UPN) currently has only 1 runway.
Facts about Maun Airport (MUB):
- The closest airport to Maun Airport (MUB) is Ghanzi Airport (GNZ), which is located 165 miles (266 kilometers) SW of MUB.
- Maun Airport is an international airport serving the town of Maun in the northern part of Botswana.
- In March 2000 a Cessna 414 crashed on its way from Gaborone to Maun.
- The first planes to land here were before World War II – in the 1930s, just a mere 30 or so years after the Wright brothers made their historic first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- Maun Airport (MUB) currently has only 1 runway.
- The furthest airport from Maun Airport (MUB) is Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA), which is nearly antipodal to Maun Airport (meaning Maun Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Kona International Airport at Keāhole), and is located 12,399 miles (19,954 kilometers) away in Kailua / Kona, Hawaii, United States.
- The landing strip in those far-off days was what is today Maun’s main street, the strip later being moved away from the town centre to the present site of the airport.