Nonstop flight route between Atambua, Indonesia and Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Haliwen Airport (ABU), Atambua, Indonesia and Pope Field (POB), Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 10,100 miles (or 16,254 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 Haliwen Airport and Pope Field, 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 Haliwen Airport and Pope Field. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | ABU / WRKA |
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Location: | Atambua, Indonesia |
GPS Coordinates: | 9°19'59"S by 124°54'0"E |
Area Served: | Atambua, Indonesia |
Elevation: | 1434 feet (437 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from ABU |
More Information: | ABU Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | POB / KPOB |
Airport Name: | Pope Field |
Location: | Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States |
GPS Coordinates: | 35°10'14"N by 79°0'51"W |
View all routes: | Routes from POB |
More Information: | POB Maps & Info |
Facts about Haliwen Airport (ABU):
- The closest airport to Haliwen Airport (ABU) is Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport (DIL), which is located 69 miles (111 kilometers) NE of ABU.
- Haliwen Airport (ABU) currently has only 1 runway.
- In addition to being known as "Haliwen Airport", another name for ABU is "WATA".
- The furthest airport from Haliwen Airport (ABU) is Zorg en Hoop Airport (ORG), which is nearly antipodal to Haliwen Airport (meaning Haliwen Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Zorg en Hoop Airport), and is located 12,193 miles (19,623 kilometers) away in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Facts about Pope Field (POB):
- On December 1, 1974 the Military Airlift Command took responsibility for tactical airlift and assumed command of Pope with all of its assigned units.
- The 464th received the Mackay Trophy for the dramatic RED DRAGON/DRAGON ROUGE and BLACK DRAGON/DRAGON NOIR hostage rescue missions in the Congo in 1964.
- The closest airport to Pope Field (POB) is Simmons Army Airfield (FBG), which is located only 5 miles (8 kilometers) ESE of POB.
- The furthest airport from Pope Field (POB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,630 miles (18,716 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
- Pope AFB is named after First Lieutenant Harley Halbert Pope who was killed on January 7, 1919, when the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny he was flying crashed into the Cape Fear River.
- The 10th TRG was inactivated on April 1, 1949 and the host unit at Pope was the 4415th Air Base Group.
- During its time at Pope, a major period of facility expansion occurred.