General aviation field
Great Bend Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 7,852 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,887 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 24 of 24
- Coordinates
- 38.34, -98.86
At 7,852 ft, Great Bend Municipal Airport has the fifth-longest runway of the 74 jet-capable fields in Kansas, at 1,887 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. Every one of the 24 types we broker clears it. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Denver, 333 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.
- 333 mi1 h 25 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 396 mi1 h 36 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 435 mi1 h 43 mfrom $3,095one way, all‑in indicative
- 567 mi2 h 06 mfrom $4,036one way, all‑in indicative
- 633 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,503one way, all‑in indicative
- 635 mi2 h 17 mfrom $4,519one way, all‑in indicative
- 687 mi2 h 26 mfrom $4,887one way, all‑in indicative
- 717 mi2 h 32 mfrom $5,100one 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 ~2,800 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,487 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,603 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,360 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,908 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,392 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,783 ft here
- Hawker 800XP8 seats · 2,923 mi range · needs ~5,317 ft here
- Learjet 60XR7–8 seats · 2,768 mi range · needs ~5,759 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,762 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 ~4,984 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~5,019 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~5,082 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~5,109 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~5,082 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 7X12–14 seats · 6,847 mi range · needs ~6,033 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 900LX12–14 seats · 5,466 mi range · needs ~5,510 ft here
- Gulfstream G45012–14 seats · 5,006 mi range · needs ~5,917 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,940 ft here
- Cessna Citation X+8–9 seats · 3,982 mi range · needs ~5,431 ft here
Ultra long range
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Bombardier Global 750014–19 seats · 8,861 mi range · needs ~6,128 ft here
- Gulfstream G650ER13–19 seats · 8,631 mi range · needs ~6,656 ft here
- Gulfstream G55014–16 seats · 7,768 mi range · needs ~6,245 ft here
- Bombardier Global 600013–17 seats · 6,905 mi range · needs ~6,843 ft here
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.