General aviation field
Creve Coeur Airport, St Louis.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,500 ft
- Field elevation
- 463 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 38.73, -90.51
Creve Coeur Airport's 4,500 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 63 jet-capable fields in Missouri, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Chicago, 272 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.
- 272 mi1 h 14 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 276 mi1 h 15 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 540 mi2 h 01 mfrom $3,839one way, all‑in indicative
- 684 mi2 h 26 mfrom $4,863one way, all‑in indicative
- 702 mi2 h 29 mfrom $4,994one way, all‑in indicative
- 711 mi2 h 31 mfrom $5,059one way, all‑in indicative
- 717 mi2 h 32 mfrom $5,100one way, all‑in indicative
- 770 mi2 h 41 mfrom $5,477one 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 ~2,687 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,346 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,457 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,224 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,750 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,255 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,630 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,609 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 4,740 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.