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General aviation field

Bluffton Airport.

K5G7 · Bluffton, OH — charter flights arranged across FAA Part 135 operators.
Longest paved runway
4,126 ft
Field elevation
851 ft
Runway-capable types
8 of 24
Coordinates
40.89, -83.87
Passengers
2 passengers

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Bluffton Airport's 4,126 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 75 jet-capable fields in Ohio, 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, 226 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.

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

    2 types clear the runwayneeds ~2,718–3,384 ft here

    Seats, range and runway needed, by type
    • Pilatus PC-126–8 seats · 2,123 mi range · needs ~2,718 ft here
    • Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,384 ft here

  • Light jet

    4 types clear the runwayneeds ~3,261–3,793 ft here

    Seats, range and runway needed, by type
    • Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,497 ft here
    • Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,261 ft here
    • Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,793 ft here
    • Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,292 ft here

  • Midsize jet

    2 types clear the runwayneeds ~3,651–3,671 ft here

    Seats, range and runway needed, by type
    • Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,671 ft here
    • Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,651 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 4,794 ft here.

Alternates

Nearby alternates

The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.