Nonstop flight route between Bagotville, Quebec, Canada and Rochester, New York, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between CFB Bagotville (YBG), Bagotville, Quebec, Canada and Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC), Rochester, New York, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 483 miles (or 777 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 CFB Bagotville and Greater Rochester International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about CFB Bagotville (YBG):

• Because of CFB Bagotville's relatively low elevation of 522 feet, planes can take off or land at CFB Bagotville 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.
• Discovery Air Defence Services Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets are based here as part of the CF jet training program Contracted Airborne Training Services.
• Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, commonly referred to as CFB Bagotville, is a Canadian Forces Base located 4.5 nautical miles west of Bagotville in the city of Saguenay, Quebec.
• In November 1944 1 OTU was disbanded and the closure of RCAF Station Bagotville and its secondary facilities at RCAF Station St-Honoré was announced.
• At the height of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Air Force selected a relatively level farming area at the head of navigable waters in the Saguenay Fjord to be the site of several aerodromes during 1941.
• The furthest airport from CFB Bagotville (YBG) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,408 miles (18,359 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• In addition to being known as "CFB Bagotville", another name for YBG is "Bagotville Airport".
• CFB Bagotville (YBG) has 2 runways.
• The escalating tensions brought about by the Cold War and the Korean War saw RCAF Station Bagotville reactivated on 1 July 1951 as a training base for air defence squadrons deploying in support of NATO's defence of western Europe from the Warsaw Pact.
• Later that year 410 squadron formed at CFB Bagotville to provide training.
• The closest airport to CFB Bagotville (YBG) is Alma Airport (YTF), which is located 32 miles (52 kilometers) WNW of YBG.

Facts about Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC):

• The furthest airport from Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,501 miles (18,509 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• In 2006, Monroe County consolidated the separate security checkpoints at each concourse, to one central security checkpoint.
• Because of Greater Rochester International Airport's relatively low elevation of 559 feet, planes can take off or land at Greater Rochester International 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.
• The closest airport to Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) is Dansville Municipal Airport (DSV), which is located 38 miles (61 kilometers) S of ROC.
• Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) has 3 runways.
• In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was talk of building a Rochester-Buffalo airport in southeastern Niagara County, which would have taken over passenger traffic from Rochester-Monroe County and Greater Buffalo International airports.
• The County got as far as building temporary parking lots to the west and closing the main parking lots to begin construction on a garage.
• Greater Rochester International Airport handled 2,533,834 passengers last year.