General aviation field
Smith Center Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,400 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,800 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 39.76, -98.79
Smith Center Municipal Airport's 4,400 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 74 jet-capable fields in Kansas, at 1,800 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 Denver, 322 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.
- 322 mi1 h 23 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 432 mi1 h 42 mfrom $3,070one way, all‑in indicative
- 490 mi1 h 52 mfrom $3,487one way, all‑in indicative
- 590 mi2 h 10 mfrom $4,200one way, all‑in indicative
- 664 mi2 h 22 mfrom $4,724one way, all‑in indicative
- 670 mi2 h 23 mfrom $4,765one way, all‑in indicative
- 705 mi2 h 30 mfrom $5,018one way, all‑in indicative
- 727 mi2 h 33 mfrom $5,174one 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 ~2,793 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,478 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,594 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,352 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,899 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,383 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,773 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,752 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 4,927 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.