General aviation field
Grinnell Regional Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,200 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,008 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 15 of 24
- Coordinates
- 41.71, -92.74
Grinnell Regional Airport's 5,200 ft of runway is longer than most of the 61 jet-capable fields in Iowa, at 1,008 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 15 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 9. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Chicago, 250 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.
- 250 mi1 h 10 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 505 mi1 h 55 mfrom $3,594one way, all‑in indicative
- 651 mi2 h 20 mfrom $4,634one way, all‑in indicative
- 652 mi2 h 20 mfrom $4,642one way, all‑in indicative
- 762 mi2 h 39 mfrom $5,419one way, all‑in indicative
- 826 mi2 h 51 mfrom $5,878one way, all‑in indicative
- 841 mi2 h 53 mfrom $5,984one way, all‑in indicative
- 846 mi2 h 54 mfrom $6,017one 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 ~2,730 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,400 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,513 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,276 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,811 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,307 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,688 ft here
- Hawker 800XP8 seats · 2,923 mi range · needs ~5,184 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,668 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 ~4,860 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,894 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,955 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~4,981 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,955 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,816 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Cessna Citation X+, Dassault Falcon 900LX, Learjet 60XR, Gulfstream G450, Dassault Falcon 7X, Bombardier Global 7500 and 3 more — the shortest of these needs about 5,295 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.