Nonstop flight route between Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada and Marysville, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Sept-Îles Airport (YZV), Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada and Beale Air Force Base (BAB), Marysville, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,749 miles (or 4,423 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 Sept-Îles 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 Sept-Îles 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 Sept-Îles Airport (YZV):

• In addition to being known as "Sept-Îles Airport", another name for YZV is "Aéroport de Sept-Îles".
• The closest airport to Sept-Îles Airport (YZV) is Port-Menier Airport (YPN), which is located 92 miles (148 kilometers) ESE of YZV.
• Because of Sept-Îles Airport's relatively low elevation of 180 feet, planes can take off or land at Sept-Îles 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.
• Sept-Îles Airport (YZV) has 2 runways.
• The furthest airport from Sept-Îles Airport (YZV) is Albany Airport (ALH), which is located 11,361 miles (18,284 kilometers) away in Albany, Western Australia, Australia.

Facts about Beale Air Force Base (BAB):

• 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.
• The 456th BW was inactivated on 30 September 1975, and its equipment and personnel were redesignated as the 17th Bombardment Wing, Heavy when the senior unit was inactivated at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
• In addition to being known as "Beale Air Force Base", another name for BAB is "Beale AFB".
• 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.
• In 1952 Beale AFB was placed in inactive status for conversion to an operational airbase.
• In 1962, in order to retain the lineage of its MAJCOM 4-digit combat units and to perpetuate the lineage of many currently inactive bombardment units with illustrious World War II records, Headquarters SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue its MAJCOM strategic wings that were equipped with combat aircraft and to activate AFCON units, most of which were inactive at the time which could carry a lineage and history.
• On 8 February 1959, Strategic Air Command established Beale as an operational USAF base.
• In 1948, Camp Beale became Beale AFB, its mission being to train bombardier navigators in radar techniques.
• 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.
• On 30 January 1959, the Air Force announced plans to conduct surveys in the vicinity of Beale to determine the feasibility for missile bases.
• Half of the aircraft were maintained on 15-minute alert, fully fueled, armed, and ready for combat.