General aviation field
Meade Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,800 ft
- Field elevation
- 2,529 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.28, -100.36
Meade Municipal Airport's 4,800 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 74 jet-capable fields in Kansas, and its 2,529 ft elevation adds noticeably to the runway a jet needs in summer. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Denver, 290 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.
- 290 mi1 h 17 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 365 mi1 h 30 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 377 mi1 h 33 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 513 mi1 h 56 mfrom $3,651one way, all‑in indicative
- 603 mi2 h 12 mfrom $4,290one way, all‑in indicative
- 697 mi2 h 28 mfrom $4,961one way, all‑in indicative
- 699 mi2 h 28 mfrom $4,969one way, all‑in indicative
- 741 mi2 h 36 mfrom $5,272one 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 ~2,851 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,550 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,669 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,421 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,980 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,454 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,852 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,830 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 5,030 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.