General aviation field
Hillsdale Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,000 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,182 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 13 of 24
- Coordinates
- 41.92, -84.59
Hillsdale Municipal Airport's 5,000 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 81 jet-capable fields in Michigan, at 1,182 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 13 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 11. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Chicago, 170 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.
- 170 mi57 minfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 415 mi1 h 39 mfrom $2,955one way, all‑in indicative
- 427 mi1 h 41 mfrom $3,037one way, all‑in indicative
- 550 mi2 h 03 mfrom $3,913one way, all‑in indicative
- 671 mi2 h 24 mfrom $4,773one way, all‑in indicative
- 681 mi2 h 25 mfrom $4,846one way, all‑in indicative
- 751 mi2 h 38 mfrom $5,346one way, all‑in indicative
- 918 mi3 h 07 mfrom $6,533one 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 ~2,744 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,417 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,531 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,293 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,830 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,324 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,707 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,686 ft here
Super-midsize
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Embraer Praetor 6008–12 seats · 4,624 mi range · needs ~4,884 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,918 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,981 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,981 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,841 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Bombardier Challenger 350, Hawker 800XP, Cessna Citation X+, Dassault Falcon 900LX, Learjet 60XR, Gulfstream G450 and 5 more — the shortest of these needs about 5,006 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.