Nonstop flight route between Tonopah, Nevada, United States and Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD), Tonopah, Nevada, United States and Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS), Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 679 miles (or 1,092 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 Tonopah Test Range Airport and Cheyenne Regional Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD):

• The closest airport to Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Tonopah Airport (TPH), which is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) NW of XSD.
• The Tonopah Range Airport first opened in 1957, supporting operations on the Test Range itself, which was used for United States Atomic Energy Commission ) funded weapon programs.
• The primary access to the facility is off of U.S.
• The assets of the squadron could not go to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, and the fate of them remains in some cases, still classified.
• The furthest airport from Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,207 miles (18,036 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
• Several locations were considered, Michael Army Airfield at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, and the Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field on the Goldwater Range in Arizona.
• On 17 May 1982, the move of the 4450th TG from Groom Lake to Tonopah was initiated, with the final components of the move completed in early 1983.
• The MiG-21 posed a major threat to Israeli Air Defenses as well as to American pilots over the skies of North Vietnam.

Facts about Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS):

• Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS) has 2 runways.
• Cheyenne Regional Airport is the home of Cheyenne Air National Guard Base, the main operating base for the Wyoming Air National Guard and the Wyoming Army National Guard.
• Because of Cheyenne Regional Airport's high elevation of 6,159 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at CYS. Combined with a high temperature, this could make CYS a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.
• Cheyenne's airport saw its first commercial passengers in the 1920s.
• The closest airport to Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS) is Francis E. Warren Air Force Base (FEW), which is located only 3 miles (5 kilometers) WSW of CYS.
• The airport terminal contains plaques of the inductees into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame.
• The furthest airport from Cheyenne Regional Airport (CYS) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,803 miles (17,385 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• In addition to being known as "Cheyenne Regional Airport", another name for CYS is "Jerry Olson Field".
• United Airlines stopped at Cheyenne until 1960.