Nonstop flight route between Wallops Island, Virginia, United States and Kalispell, Montana, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL), Wallops Island, Virginia, United States and Glacier Park International Airport (FCA), Kalispell, Montana, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,057 miles (or 3,311 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 relatively short distance between Wallops Flight Facility Airport and Glacier Park International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | WAL / KWAL |
| Airport Name: | Wallops Flight Facility Airport |
| Location: | Wallops Island, Virginia, United States |
| GPS Coordinates: | 37°56'24"N by 75°27'59"W |
| Elevation: | 0 feet (0 meters) |
| View all routes: | Routes from WAL |
| More Information: | WAL Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
| IATA / ICAO Codes: | FCA / KGPI |
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| Location: | Kalispell, Montana, United States |
| GPS Coordinates: | 48°18'38"N by 114°15'21"W |
| Area Served: | Kalispell, Montana |
| Operator/Owner: | Flathead Municipal Airport Authority |
| Airport Type: | Public |
| Elevation: | 2977 feet (907 meters) |
| # of Runways: | 2 |
| View all routes: | Routes from FCA |
| More Information: | FCA Maps & Info |
Facts about Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL):
- The furthest airport from Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,785 miles (18,965 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- On September 6, 2013, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer was launched from Wallops, atop a Minotaur V rocket.
- The Wallops mobile range instrumentation includes telemetry, radar, command and power systems.
- The schedule for sounding rocket launches from WFF is posted on its official Web site.
- LCT2 is an effort to produce a relatively low-cost transceiver to allow launch vehicles to communicate through NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System after they have gone over the horizon from the launch site.
- Because of Wallops Flight Facility Airport's relatively low elevation of 0 feet, planes can take off or land at Wallops Flight Facility 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 1945, NASA's predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, established a rocket launch site on Wallops Island under the direction of the Langley Research Center.
- The closest airport to Wallops Flight Facility Airport (WAL) is Accomack County Airport (MFV), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) SW of WAL.
Facts about Glacier Park International Airport (FCA):
- United Express has summer Canadair CRJ-700 nonstops to Chicago, and nonstop to Denver year round on CRJ-200s and CRJ-700s.
- The furthest airport from Glacier Park International Airport (FCA) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 10,533 miles (16,951 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
- Glacier Park International Airport is in Flathead County, Montana, six miles northeast of Kalispell.
- The closest airport to Glacier Park International Airport (FCA) is Pincher Creek Airport (WPC), which is located 84 miles (136 kilometers) N of FCA.
- In addition to being known as "Glacier Park International Airport", another name for FCA is "GPI".
- Glacier Park International Airport (FCA) has 2 runways.
- All flights at FCA by Delta Airlines and Delta Connection are jets.
- Glacier Park International Airport handled 355,928 passengers last year.
