Nonstop flight route between Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States and Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Tulsa International Airport (TUL), Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States and Yakushima Airport (KUM), Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,935 miles (or 11,161 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 Tulsa International Airport and Yakushima 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 Tulsa International Airport and Yakushima Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | TUL / KTUL |
Airport Name: | Tulsa International Airport |
Location: | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 36°11'53"N by 95°53'17"W |
Area Served: | Northeast Oklahoma |
Operator/Owner: | City of Tulsa |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 677 feet (206 meters) |
# of Runways: | 3 |
View all routes: | Routes from TUL |
More Information: | TUL Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | KUM / RJFC |
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Location: | Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan |
GPS Coordinates: | 30°23'8"N by 130°39'33"E |
Area Served: | Yakushima, Japan |
Operator/Owner: | Government |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 122 feet (37 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from KUM |
More Information: | KUM Maps & Info |
Facts about Tulsa International Airport (TUL):
- The first terminal building was a one-story wood and tar paper structure that looked like a warehouse.
- McIntyre evidently closed his airport during the 1930s and merged it with R.
- Tulsa International Airport handled 2,794,469 passengers last year.
- The closest airport to Tulsa International Airport (TUL) is Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport (RVS), which is located only 12 miles (20 kilometers) SSW of TUL.
- The Tulsa Air and Space Museum was established in 1998 on the northwest side of the airport.
- Tulsa International Airport (TUL) has 3 runways.
- The furthest airport from Tulsa International Airport (TUL) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,743 miles (17,289 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
- Tulsa International Airport is a city-owned civil-military airport five miles northeast of downtown Tulsa, in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States.
- The 138th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard is based at the co-located Tulsa Air National Guard Base.
- Because of Tulsa International Airport's relatively low elevation of 677 feet, planes can take off or land at Tulsa 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 Base occupies about 260 acres and 3,300,000 square feet of maintenance "plant" at the Tulsa Airport.
Facts about Yakushima Airport (KUM):
- The closest airport to Yakushima Airport (KUM) is Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), which is located 98 miles (158 kilometers) N of KUM.
- Because of Yakushima Airport's relatively low elevation of 122 feet, planes can take off or land at Yakushima 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 furthest airport from Yakushima Airport (KUM) is Salgado Filho International Airport (POA), which is nearly antipodal to Yakushima Airport (meaning Yakushima Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salgado Filho International Airport), and is located 12,324 miles (19,834 kilometers) away in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- In addition to being known as "Yakushima Airport", other names for KUM include "屋久島空港" and "Yakushima Kūkō".
- Yakushima Airport (KUM) currently has only 1 runway.