Nonstop flight route between Sidi Ifni, Morocco and Mountain View, California, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Sania Ramel Airport (SII), Sidi Ifni, Morocco and Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ), Mountain View, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,968 miles (or 9,605 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 Sania Ramel Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield, 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 Sania Ramel Airport and Moffett Federal Airfield. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | SII / GMMF |
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Location: | Sidi Ifni, Morocco |
GPS Coordinates: | 35°35'39"N by 5°19'12"W |
Area Served: | Tétouan, Morocco |
Operator/Owner: | ONDA |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 10 feet (3 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from SII |
More Information: | SII Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | NUQ / KNUQ |
Airport Name: | Moffett Federal Airfield |
Location: | Mountain View, California, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 37°24'53"N by 122°2'53"W |
Operator/Owner: | NASA Ames Research Center |
Airport Type: | Private |
Elevation: | 32 feet (10 meters) |
# of Runways: | 2 |
View all routes: | Routes from NUQ |
More Information: | NUQ Maps & Info |
Facts about Sania Ramel Airport (SII):
- In addition to being known as "Sania Ramel Airport", other names for SII include "مطار تطوان سانية الرمل", "Aéroport Tétouan – Sania R'mel", "TTU", "GMTN" and "TTU".
- On 1 July 1927 civilian operations started in the airfield, which became a stopover in the postal flight route between Larache and Seville for some months that year.
- Sania Ramel Airport is an airport serving Tétouan, a city in the Tangier-Tétouan region in Morocco.
- Sania Ramel Airport handled 15,039 passengers last year.
- Before the start of the Spanish Civil War, a paved runway was built which enabled Sania Ramel to serve as civil airport for Tetouan.
- After Morocco's independence in 1957, the airport was transferred to the new administration, after which it started to decline.
- The furthest airport from Sania Ramel Airport (SII) is Whangarei Airport (WRE), which is nearly antipodal to Sania Ramel Airport (meaning Sania Ramel Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Whangarei Airport), and is located 12,415 miles (19,981 kilometers) away in Whangarei, New Zealand.
- The paved runway is laid out in the direction 06/24 and measures 2,300 by 45 metres.
- The closest airport to Sania Ramel Airport (SII) is Sania Ramel Airport (TTU), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of SII.
- Sania Ramel Airport (SII) currently has only 1 runway.
- Because of Sania Ramel Airport's relatively low elevation of 10 feet, planes can take off or land at Sania Ramel 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 Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ):
- Because of Moffett Federal Airfield's relatively low elevation of 32 feet, planes can take off or land at Moffett Federal Airfield 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 Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (PAO), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) NW of NUQ.
- In 2006, an offer to clean the hangar and coat its outsides with solar panels to recoup the costs of cleaning was floated by a private company, but the plan never saw fruition because it was too costly.
- The furthest airport from Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) is Tôlanaro Airport (FTU), which is located 11,365 miles (18,290 kilometers) away in Tôlanaro, Madagascar.
- Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering 8 acres.
- Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) has 2 runways.
- At its peak in the 1990s, NAS Moffett Field was the U.S.
- As an aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy wanted to use the airship hangars at Moffett for blimp operations along with Pacific Coast.
- By far the most famous and visible sites are Hangars #1, #2, and #3, which dwarf the surrounding buildings.