General aviation field
Big Sandy Regional Airport, Debord.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,051 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,221 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 14 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.75, -82.64
Big Sandy Regional Airport's 5,051 ft of runway is longer than most of the 48 jet-capable fields in Kentucky, at 1,221 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 14 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 10. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Nashville, 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 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 292 mi1 h 18 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 366 mi1 h 31 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 411 mi1 h 38 mfrom $2,923one way, all‑in indicative
- 505 mi1 h 55 mfrom $3,594one way, all‑in indicative
- 681 mi2 h 25 mfrom $4,846one way, all‑in indicative
- 712 mi2 h 31 mfrom $5,067one way, all‑in indicative
- 779 mi2 h 42 mfrom $5,542one 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. Short legs sit at the smallest cabin's daily minimum, so we show distance and time for those and price them on request.
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 ~2,747 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,421 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,535 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,296 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,834 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,328 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,711 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,690 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 ~4,890 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,924 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,986 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~5,012 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,986 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,846 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Hawker 800XP, Cessna Citation X+, Dassault Falcon 900LX, Learjet 60XR, Gulfstream G450, Dassault Falcon 7X and 4 more — the shortest of these needs about 5,216 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.