General aviation field
Nebraska City Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,501 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,165 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 40.61, -95.87
Nebraska City Municipal Airport's 4,501 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 48 jet-capable fields in Nebraska, at 1,165 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, 426 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.
- 426 mi1 h 41 mfrom $3,029one way, all‑in indicative
- 480 mi1 h 50 mfrom $3,414one way, all‑in indicative
- 539 mi2 h 01 mfrom $3,831one way, all‑in indicative
- 586 mi2 h 09 mfrom $4,167one way, all‑in indicative
- 590 mi2 h 10 mfrom $4,200one way, all‑in indicative
- 726 mi2 h 33 mfrom $5,166one way, all‑in indicative
- 758 mi2 h 39 mfrom $5,395one way, all‑in indicative
- 788 mi2 h 44 mfrom $5,608one 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 ~2,743 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,415 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,529 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,291 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,828 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,322 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,705 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,684 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 4,838 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.