Regional airport
Caribou Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,003 ft
- Field elevation
- 626 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 46.87, -68.02
Caribou Municipal Airport's 4,003 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 24 jet-capable fields in Maine, 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 Boston, 344 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.
- 344 mi1 h 27 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 402 mi1 h 37 mfrom $2,857one way, all‑in indicative
- 513 mi1 h 56 mfrom $3,651one way, all‑in indicative
- 726 mi2 h 33 mfrom $5,166one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,030 mi3 h 26 mfrom $7,327one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,154 mi2 h 44 mfrom $8,876one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,213 mi2 h 51 mfrom $9,327one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,542 mi3 h 30 mfrom $11,858one 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 ~2,700 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,362 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,474 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,240 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,768 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,270 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,647 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,627 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 4,763 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.