Nonstop flight route between Fairford, England, United Kingdom and Erzincan, Turkey:
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About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Fairford (FFD), Fairford, England, United Kingdom and Erzincan Airport (ERC), Erzincan, Turkey would travel a Great Circle distance of 2,124 miles (or 3,418 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 relatively short distance between RAF Fairford and Erzincan Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
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: | ERC / LTCD |
Airport Name: | Erzincan Airport |
Location: | Erzincan, Turkey |
GPS Coordinates: | 39°42'36"N by 39°31'36"E |
Airport Type: | Public / Military |
Elevation: | 3783 feet (1,153 meters) |
# of Runways: | 1 |
View all routes: | Routes from ERC |
More Information: | ERC Maps & Info |
Facts about RAF Fairford (FFD):
- 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 closest airport to RAF Fairford (FFD) is RAF Brize Norton (BZZ), which is located only 10 miles (16 kilometers) ENE of FFD.
- Fairford was chosen in 1969 as the British test centre for the Concorde aircraft, which continued until 1977.
- 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.
- 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.
- Due to the deteriorating airfield facilities and its unique NATO heavy bomber mission, RAF Fairford underwent a $100 million upgrade of its runway and fuel systems in the largest NATO funded airfield construction project within a NATO country since the end of the Cold War.
- In the early years of the Cold War the British and American governments reached an agreement under which elements of the USAF Strategic Air Command would be based in the UK.
Facts about Erzincan Airport (ERC):
- The furthest airport from Erzincan Airport (ERC) is Totegegie Airport (GMR), which is located 11,242 miles (18,093 kilometers) away in Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia.
- Erzincan Airport (ERC) currently has only 1 runway.
- The closest airport to Erzincan Airport (ERC) is Elazığ Airport (EZS), which is located 77 miles (124 kilometers) S of ERC.