General aviation field
Lee Vining Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,090 ft
- Field elevation
- 6,802 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 4 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.96, -119.11
Lee Vining Airport's 4,090 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 152 jet-capable fields in California, and at 6,802 ft the field is high enough that density altitude takes a real bite out of what that runway will accept on a warm afternoon. 4 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 20. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Napa, 174 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.
- 174 mi57 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 175 mi57 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 254 mi1 h 11 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 261 mi1 h 12 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 458 mi1 h 47 mfrom $3,258one way, all‑in indicative
- 502 mi1 h 54 mfrom $3,569one way, all‑in indicative
- 586 mi2 h 09 mfrom $4,167one way, all‑in indicative
- 666 mi2 h 23 mfrom $4,740one 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 ~3,191 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,973 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,829 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,865 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Cessna Citation CJ4, Cessna Citation XLS+, Cessna Citation Latitude, Embraer Phenom 300, Dassault Falcon 2000LXS, Embraer Praetor 600 and 14 more — the shortest of these needs about 4,106 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.