Nonstop flight route between Fairford, England, United Kingdom and Chimbote, Ancash Region, Peru:
Departure Airport:
Arrival Airport:
Distance from FFD to CHM:
Share this route:
Jump to:
- About this route
- FFD Airport Information
- CHM Airport Information
- Facts about FFD
- Facts about CHM
- Map of Nearest Airports to FFD
- List of Nearest Airports to FFD
- Map of Furthest Airports from FFD
- List of Furthest Airports from FFD
- Map of Nearest Airports to CHM
- List of Nearest Airports to CHM
- Map of Furthest Airports from CHM
- List of Furthest Airports from CHM
About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Fairford (FFD), Fairford, England, United Kingdom and Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM), Chimbote, Ancash Region, Peru would travel a Great Circle distance of 6,156 miles (or 9,907 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 RAF Fairford and Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales 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 RAF Fairford and Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | FFD / EGVA |
Airport Name: | RAF Fairford |
Location: | Fairford, England, United Kingdom |
GPS Coordinates: | 51°40'55"N by 1°47'24"W |
Operator/Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
View all routes: | Routes from FFD |
More Information: | FFD Maps & Info |
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: | CHM / SPEO |
Airport Name: | Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport |
Location: | Chimbote, Ancash Region, Peru |
GPS Coordinates: | 9°8'58"S by 78°31'26"W |
Operator/Owner: | CORPAC S.A. |
Airport Type: | Public |
Elevation: | 69 feet (21 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from CHM |
More Information: | CHM Maps & Info |
Facts about RAF Fairford (FFD):
- The 422nd ABG at RAF Croughton and the 420th Air Base Squadron are responsible for the day-to-day operations of RAF Fairford, ensuring that it has adequate resources.
- The closest airport to RAF Fairford (FFD) is RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) ENE of FFD.
- On 14 January 2004, the 420th Air Base Group was established at RAF Fairford to improve the control of its geographically separated units that had been aligned beneath the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall.
- On 15 September 2009, it was announced that the USAF will withdraw all their uniformed staff from the station by September 2010, after which it will be run on a "care and maintenance" basis.
- The runway was completed in 1953, and served as a forward airbase for the first Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.
- The furthest airport from RAF Fairford (FFD) is Dunedin International Airport (DUD), which is located 11,898 miles (19,148 kilometers) away in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
Facts about Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM):
- Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM) currently has only 1 runway.
- Because of Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport's relatively low elevation of 69 feet, planes can take off or land at Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales 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 Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM) is Samui International Airport (USM), which is nearly antipodal to Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (meaning Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Samui International Airport), and is located 12,337 miles (19,854 kilometers) away in Ko Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand.
- The closest airport to Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport (CHM) is Comandante FAP Germán Arias Graziani Airport (ATA), which is located 65 miles (104 kilometers) ESE of CHM.