Regional airport
Van Zandt County Regional Airport, Wills Point.
- Longest paved runway
- 3,230 ft
- Field elevation
- 518 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 2 of 24
- Coordinates
- 32.68, -95.98
Van Zandt County Regional Airport's 3,230 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 323 jet-capable fields in Texas, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 2 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 22. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Dallas, 52 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.
- 52 mi36 minfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 199 mi1 h 00 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 214 mi1 h 03 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 581 mi2 h 04 mfrom $4,134one way, all‑in indicative
- 686 mi2 h 22 mfrom $4,879one way, all‑in indicative
- 757 mi2 h 34 mfrom $5,387one way, all‑in indicative
- 787 mi2 h 39 mfrom $5,600one way, all‑in indicative
- 923 mi3 h 01 mfrom $6,566one 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 price at an operator's daily minimum, which is why several start at the same figure.
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.
Runway and elevation figures: OurAirports, a public-domain airport dataset, retrieved August 2026.
Turboprop
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Pilatus PC-126–8 seats · 2,123 mi range · needs ~2,691 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,229 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Cessna Citation M2, Beechcraft King Air 350, Cessna Citation CJ4, Cessna Citation XLS+, Cessna Citation Latitude, Embraer Phenom 300 and 16 more — the shortest of these needs about 3,260 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.