General aviation field
Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,357 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,047 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 44.75, -95.56
Granite Falls Municipal Airport / Lenzen-Roe Memorial Field's 4,357 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 64 jet-capable fields in Minnesota, at 1,047 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Chicago, 425 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.
- 425 mi1 h 41 mfrom $3,021one way, all‑in indicative
- 595 mi2 h 10 mfrom $4,232one way, all‑in indicative
- 694 mi2 h 28 mfrom $4,936one way, all‑in indicative
- 755 mi2 h 38 mfrom $5,370one way, all‑in indicative
- 756 mi2 h 38 mfrom $5,379one way, all‑in indicative
- 761 mi2 h 39 mfrom $5,411one way, all‑in indicative
- 825 mi2 h 50 mfrom $5,870one way, all‑in indicative
- 931 mi3 h 09 mfrom $6,623one 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 ~2,733 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,404 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,517 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,280 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,815 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,311 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,692 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,672 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 4,822 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.