General aviation field
Summit Airport, Middletown.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,488 ft
- Field elevation
- 70 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 39.52, -75.72
At 4,488 ft, Summit Airport has the third-longest runway of the 4 jet-capable fields in Delaware, 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 Washington, D.C., 101 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.
- 101 mi45 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 127 mi49 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 308 mi1 h 21 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 321 mi1 h 23 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 517 mi1 h 57 mfrom $3,676one way, all‑in indicative
- 642 mi2 h 19 mfrom $4,568one way, all‑in indicative
- 661 mi2 h 22 mfrom $4,699one way, all‑in indicative
- 922 mi3 h 07 mfrom $6,557one 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 sit at the smallest cabin's daily minimum, so we show distance and time for those and price them on request.
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 ~2,656 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,307 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,417 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,187 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,707 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,217 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,588 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,567 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 4,685 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.