General aviation field
Knox County Airport, Mount Vernon.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,504 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,191 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 17 of 24
- Coordinates
- 40.33, -82.52
Knox County Airport's 5,504 ft of runway is longer than most of the 75 jet-capable fields in Ohio, at 1,191 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 17 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 7. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Washington, D.C., 287 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.
- 287 mi1 h 17 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 305 mi1 h 20 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 367 mi1 h 31 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 445 mi1 h 44 mfrom $3,168one way, all‑in indicative
- 532 mi1 h 59 mfrom $3,782one way, all‑in indicative
- 601 mi2 h 11 mfrom $4,273one way, all‑in indicative
- 655 mi2 h 21 mfrom $4,658one way, all‑in indicative
- 946 mi3 h 11 mfrom $6,729one 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. Short legs sit at the smallest cabin's daily minimum, so we show distance and time for those and price them on request.
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 ~2,745 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,418 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,532 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,294 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,831 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,325 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,708 ft here
- Hawker 800XP8 seats · 2,923 mi range · needs ~5,212 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,687 ft here
Super-midsize
- Embraer Praetor 600
- Gulfstream G280
- Cessna Citation Longitude
- Bombardier Challenger 350
- Bombardier Challenger 300
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Embraer Praetor 6008–12 seats · 4,624 mi range · needs ~4,886 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,920 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,982 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~5,008 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,982 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 900LX12–14 seats · 5,466 mi range · needs ~5,401 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,842 ft here
- Cessna Citation X+8–9 seats · 3,982 mi range · needs ~5,324 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Learjet 60XR, Gulfstream G450, Dassault Falcon 7X, Bombardier Global 7500, Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream G650ER and 1 more — the shortest of these needs about 5,645 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.