Nonstop flight route between Tonopah, Nevada, United States and Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Tonopah Test Range Airport (XSD), Tonopah, Nevada, United States and Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC), Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,038 miles (or 9,716 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 Tonopah Test Range Airport and Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro 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 Tonopah Test Range Airport and Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

Departure Airport Information:

Arrival Airport Information:

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.
• In addition, unconfirmed Soviet aircraft flown were MiG-25 Foxbat.
• The primary access to the facility is off of U.S.
• On 12 August 1968, the IDF obtained two Syrian Air Force MiG-17F fighters that had gotten lost during a training flight and landed inadvertently at Besert Landing Field, Israel.
• 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.
• Foreign military sales of United States fighter aircraft to Indonesia and Egypt in the mid-1970s to replace the Soviet fighter aircraft allowed these nations to clandestinely transfer un-needed MiG-21 ultra modern MiG-23s aircraft to the United States for evaluation.
• What was learned during these projects prompted the US Navy to commence Top Gun exercises first at NAS Miramar, California and then NAS Fallon, Nevada.
• Pakistan was the first and largest customer of the J-6 receiving nearly 300 aircraft, mostly of the J-6C variety.
• It is known that the USAF continues a Foreign Materiel Acquisition/Exploitation program, although the extent of acquisitions and operations of that program is not available.

Facts about Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC):

• Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) currently has only 1 runway.
• It is operated by Infraero.
• Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport handled 322,176 passengers last year.
• Since 1980 it is administrated by Infraero.
• The furthest airport from Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is located 11,923 miles (19,188 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
• The closest airport to Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) is Januária Airport (JNA), which is located 93 miles (150 kilometers) NNW of MOC.
• In addition to being known as "Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport", another name for MOC is "Aeroporto de Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro".