General aviation field
Barnes County Municipal Airport, Valley City.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,201 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,402 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 46.94, -98.02
Barnes County Municipal Airport's 4,201 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 23 jet-capable fields in North Dakota, at 1,402 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 Chicago, 598 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.
- 598 mi2 h 11 mfrom $4,257one way, all‑in indicative
- 613 mi2 h 14 mfrom $4,363one way, all‑in indicative
- 631 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,486one way, all‑in indicative
- 659 mi2 h 22 mfrom $4,691one way, all‑in indicative
- 695 mi2 h 28 mfrom $4,945one way, all‑in indicative
- 825 mi2 h 50 mfrom $5,870one way, all‑in indicative
- 948 mi3 h 12 mfrom $6,746one way, all‑in indicative
- 976 mi3 h 17 mfrom $6,942one 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 ~2,761 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,439 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,553 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,314 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,855 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,345 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,731 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,710 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 4,872 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.