Nonstop flight route between Quaqtaq, Quebec, Canada and Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Quaqtaq Airport (YQC), Quaqtaq, Quebec, Canada and 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, (YCX), Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,059 miles (or 1,704 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 Quaqtaq Airport and 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown,, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Quaqtaq Airport (YQC):

• The furthest airport from Quaqtaq Airport (YQC) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 10,604 miles (17,065 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Quaqtaq Airport (YQC) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Quaqtaq Airport (YQC) is Kangirsuk Airport (YKG), which is located 72 miles (115 kilometers) S of YQC.
• Because of Quaqtaq Airport's relatively low elevation of 106 feet, planes can take off or land at Quaqtaq 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.

Facts about 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, (YCX):

• The area under consideration was an expansive plateau west of the St.
• Increased defence spending in the 1980s saw numerous new training facilities built and ranges modernized, and this continued into the 1990s as the Canadian Forces closed smaller bases in response to further defence budget cuts.
• The furthest airport from 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, (YCX) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,652 miles (18,752 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
• Because of 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown,'s relatively low elevation of 166 feet, planes can take off or land at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, 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.
• CFB Gagetown hosts ACSTC Argonaut, the only Royal Canadian Army Cadets summer training centre in the Atlantic Provinces.
• In the post-unification armed forces, CFB Gagetown functioned as the primary combat training centre for Force Mobile Command.
• The base headquarters were chosen for the northern part of the base adjacent to the, then, small village of Oromocto.
• At the time of its opening in 1956, until the opening of CFB Suffield in 1971, Camp Gagetown was the largest military training facility in Canada and the British Commonwealth of Nations.
• In 2009, a New York production company is releasing a feature length documentary looking into the herbicide sprayings that took place at the base from 1956-1984.
• The closest airport to 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, (YCX) is Fredericton International Airport (YFC), which is located only 5 miles (9 kilometers) WNW of YCX.
• The Gagetown Military Camp opened in 1956 and was named after the village of Gagetown, although the base was located west of this historic village and was headquartered 25 km to its north in Oromocto.
• Existing training facilities dating from the First and Second World Wars in eastern Canada were relatively small, thus a new facility was considered.