Nonstop flight route between Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and Marysville, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Jerez Airport (XRY), Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,777 miles (or 9,297 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 Jerez Airport and Beale Air Force Base, 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 Jerez Airport and Beale Air Force Base. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Jerez Airport (XRY):

• In addition to being known as "Jerez Airport", another name for XRY is "Aeropuerto de Jerez".
• Jerez Airport (XRY) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Jerez Airport (XRY) is Auckland Airport (AKL), which is nearly antipodal to Jerez Airport (meaning Jerez Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Auckland Airport), and is located 12,386 miles (19,934 kilometers) away in Mangere, New Zealand.
• Because of Jerez Airport's relatively low elevation of 93 feet, planes can take off or land at Jerez 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.
• There are regular buses to and from the airport to Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Cádiz.
• Jerez Airport train station is situated to the west of the airport, this is the other side of the car parking.
• Jerez Airport, also known as La Parra Airport, is an airport located 8 km northeast of Jerez de la Frontera in Southern Spain, about 50 mi from Sevilla and 28.1 mi from Cadiz.
• The closest airport to Jerez Airport (XRY) is Seville Airport (SVQ), which is located 47 miles (76 kilometers) N of XRY.
• Most visitors at the airport arrive from Germany and the UK however around 36% of all arriving passengers at Jerez Airport are on domestic flights.

Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• DC-18 was initially under the San Francisco Air Defense Sector, established on 15 February 1959.
• In September 1962, the 851st SMS became the last Titan I Squadron to achieve alert status.
• On 8 February 1959, Strategic Air Command established Beale as an operational USAF base.
• The base is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California.
• In 1952 Beale AFB was placed in inactive status for conversion to an operational airbase.
• The closest airport to Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Yuba County Airport (MYV), which is located only 8 miles (12 kilometers) WSW of BAB.
• The furthest airport from Beale Air Force Base (BAB) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,251 miles (18,107 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
• The 4126th SW was redesignated as the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing on 1 February 1963 in a name-only redesigation and was assigned to SAC's Fifteenth Air Force, 14th Strategic Aerospace Division.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".