Regional airport
Drake Field, Fayetteville.
- Longest paved runway
- 6,005 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,251 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 20 of 24
- Coordinates
- 36.01, -94.17
Drake Field's 6,005 ft of runway puts it in the longest quarter of Arkansas's 65 jet-capable fields, at 1,251 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 20 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 4. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Dallas, 266 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.
- 266 mi1 h 13 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 419 mi1 h 40 mfrom $2,980one way, all‑in indicative
- 444 mi1 h 44 mfrom $3,160one way, all‑in indicative
- 450 mi1 h 45 mfrom $3,201one way, all‑in indicative
- 540 mi2 h 01 mfrom $3,839one way, all‑in indicative
- 633 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,503one way, all‑in indicative
- 728 mi2 h 34 mfrom $5,182one way, all‑in indicative
- 832 mi2 h 52 mfrom $5,919one 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 ~2,749 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,424 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,538 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,299 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,838 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,330 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,714 ft here
- Hawker 800XP8 seats · 2,923 mi range · needs ~5,221 ft here
- Learjet 60XR7–8 seats · 2,768 mi range · needs ~5,655 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,694 ft here
Super-midsize
- Embraer Praetor 600
- Gulfstream G280
- Cessna Citation Longitude
- Bombardier Challenger 350
- Bombardier Challenger 300
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Embraer Praetor 6008–12 seats · 4,624 mi range · needs ~4,894 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,928 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,991 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~5,016 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,991 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 7X12–14 seats · 6,847 mi range · needs ~5,924 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 900LX12–14 seats · 5,466 mi range · needs ~5,411 ft here
- Gulfstream G45012–14 seats · 5,006 mi range · needs ~5,810 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,850 ft here
- Cessna Citation X+8–9 seats · 3,982 mi range · needs ~5,333 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Bombardier Global 7500, Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream G650ER, Bombardier Global 6000 — the shortest of these needs about 6,018 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.