General aviation field
Trego WaKeeney Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,008 ft
- Field elevation
- 2,435 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 39.00, -99.89
Trego WaKeeney Airport's 4,008 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 74 jet-capable fields in Kansas, at 2,435 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, 268 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.
- 268 mi1 h 14 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 374 mi1 h 32 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 458 mi1 h 47 mfrom $3,258one way, all‑in indicative
- 621 mi2 h 15 mfrom $4,421one way, all‑in indicative
- 646 mi2 h 19 mfrom $4,593one way, all‑in indicative
- 664 mi2 h 22 mfrom $4,724one way, all‑in indicative
- 697 mi2 h 28 mfrom $4,961one way, all‑in indicative
- 740 mi2 h 36 mfrom $5,264one 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 ~2,844 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,541 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,659 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,412 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,969 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,444 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,842 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,820 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 5,017 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.