General aviation field
Shafter Airport - Minter Field.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,501 ft
- Field elevation
- 424 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 35.51, -119.19
Shafter Airport - Minter Field's 4,501 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 152 jet-capable fields in California, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Los Angeles, 98 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.
- 98 mi44 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 219 mi1 h 05 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 230 mi1 h 07 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 253 mi1 h 11 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 434 mi1 h 42 mfrom $3,086one way, all‑in indicative
- 611 mi2 h 13 mfrom $4,347one way, all‑in indicative
- 717 mi2 h 32 mfrom $5,100one way, all‑in indicative
- 723 mi2 h 33 mfrom $5,141one 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 ~2,684 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,342 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,453 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,220 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,746 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,251 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,626 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,605 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 4,734 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.