General aviation field
Gettysburg Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,400 ft
- Field elevation
- 2,062 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 44.99, -99.95
Gettysburg Municipal Airport's 4,400 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 29 jet-capable fields in South Dakota, at 2,062 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Denver, 450 miles away.
Access
Getting here
Straight-line distances from the cities we publish, with a typical aircraft's block time including taxi, climb and descent.
- 450 mi1 h 45 mfrom $3,201one way, all‑in indicative
- 533 mi2 h 00 mfrom $3,790one way, all‑in indicative
- 541 mi2 h 01 mfrom $3,848one way, all‑in indicative
- 545 mi2 h 02 mfrom $3,880one way, all‑in indicative
- 634 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,511one way, all‑in indicative
- 716 mi2 h 31 mfrom $5,092one way, all‑in indicative
- 855 mi2 h 56 mfrom $6,083one way, all‑in indicative
- 925 mi3 h 08 mfrom $6,582one way, all‑in indicative
From-prices are one way and all-in — operator price, our fee and federal excise tax — for the smallest cabin suited to the distance, indicative rather than quoted.
Runway
What can operate here
Compared against the published balanced field length of every type we broker, with roughly 3% added per 1,000 ft of elevation for density altitude.
This is runway length only. Individual airports also restrict by wingspan, noise curfew, slot availability and special approach certification, and performance moves with temperature, weight and the day. Clearing the runway here means an aircraft is worth asking about — the operator confirms it, and signs for it.
Turboprop
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Pilatus PC-126–8 seats · 2,123 mi range · needs ~2,814 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,504 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,621 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,377 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,928 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,409 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,801 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,780 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Dassault Falcon 2000LXS, Embraer Praetor 600, Gulfstream G280, Bombardier Challenger 300, Cessna Citation Longitude, Bombardier Challenger 350 and 10 more — the shortest of these needs about 4,964 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.