Nonstop flight route between Vadsø, Finnmark, Norway and New Haven, Connecticut, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Vadsø Airport (VDS), Vadsø, Finnmark, Norway and Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN), New Haven, Connecticut, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,848 miles (or 6,194 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 Vadsø Airport and Tweed New Haven 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 Vadsø Airport and Tweed New Haven Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | VDS / ENVD |
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Location: | Vadsø, Finnmark, Norway |
GPS Coordinates: | 70°3'55"N by 29°50'40"E |
Area Served: | Vadsø |
Operator/Owner: | Avinor |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 127 feet (39 meters) |
View all routes: | Routes from VDS |
More Information: | VDS Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | HVN / KHVN |
Airport Name: | Tweed New Haven Airport |
Location: | New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 41°15'50"N by 72°53'12"W |
Area Served: | New Haven, Connecticut |
Operator/Owner: | City of New Haven |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 12 feet (4 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from HVN |
More Information: | HVN Maps & Info |
Facts about Vadsø Airport (VDS):
- Varangfly proposed Vadsø as a possible site of a small airfield in 1964, suitable for landing air taxis and air ambulances.
- On 4 January 1984 a Cessna aircraft crashed into the sea after take-off from the airport.
- Vadsø Airport handled 81,772 passengers last year.
- The closest airport to Vadsø Airport (VDS) is Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen (KKN), which is located 24 miles (38 kilometers) S of VDS.
- The airport is located at Kiby, 4 kilometers east of the town center of Vadsø.
- The furthest airport from Vadsø Airport (VDS) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is located 10,407 miles (16,748 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
- The distance from Vardø Airport to Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen is 38 kilometers.
- The first seaplane route to Vadsø was started by Widerøe in 1938, which flew along the coast south to Trondheim.
- Because of Vadsø Airport's relatively low elevation of 127 feet, planes can take off or land at Vadsø 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 "Vadsø Airport", another name for VDS is "Vadsø lufthavn".
Facts about Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN):
- In 1987 Hyannis MA based Provincetown-Boston Airlines, a commuter airline for Peoplexpress Airlines and then Continental Airlines, began flights to New Haven.
- The closest airport to Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) is Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport (BDR), which is located only 14 miles (23 kilometers) WSW of HVN.
- United Airlines connects to New Haven's Union Station in downtown New Haven via Amtrak train to/from Newark.
- Fixed Base Operator "New Haven Airways" started scheduled flights and became New Haven's home town airline, NewAir.
- Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) has 2 runways.
- The furthest airport from Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,768 miles (18,939 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- Because of Tweed New Haven Airport's relatively low elevation of 12 feet, planes can take off or land at Tweed New Haven 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.
- Today the airport is operated by AvPorts of Teterboro, New Jersey, under contract by the Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority.