General aviation field
Cairo Regional Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,001 ft
- Field elevation
- 321 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.06, -89.22
Cairo Regional Airport's 4,001 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 69 jet-capable fields in Illinois, 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 Nashville, 155 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.
- 155 mi54 minfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 356 mi1 h 29 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 521 mi1 h 58 mfrom $3,709one way, all‑in indicative
- 594 mi2 h 10 mfrom $4,224one way, all‑in indicative
- 620 mi2 h 15 mfrom $4,413one way, all‑in indicative
- 652 mi2 h 20 mfrom $4,642one way, all‑in indicative
- 679 mi2 h 25 mfrom $4,830one way, all‑in indicative
- 854 mi2 h 55 mfrom $6,074one 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 ~2,676 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,332 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,443 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,211 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,735 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,241 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,614 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,594 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 4,720 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.