General aviation field
Waterbury Oxford Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,800 ft
- Field elevation
- 726 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 19 of 24
- Coordinates
- 41.48, -73.14
At 5,800 ft, Waterbury Oxford Airport has the second-longest runway of the 8 jet-capable fields in Connecticut, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 19 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 5. The nearest city we publish corridors for is New York, 64 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.
- 64 mi38 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 117 mi47 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 160 mi55 minShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 288 mi1 h 17 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 703 mi2 h 29 mfrom $5,002one way, all‑in indicative
- 761 mi2 h 39 mfrom $5,411one way, all‑in indicative
- 816 mi2 h 49 mfrom $5,804one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,097 mi3 h 38 mfrom $7,802one 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 ~2,708 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,372 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,484 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,249 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,780 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,280 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,658 ft here
- Hawker 800XP8 seats · 2,923 mi range · needs ~5,142 ft here
- Learjet 60XR7–8 seats · 2,768 mi range · needs ~5,569 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,638 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 ~4,820 ft here
- Gulfstream G2808–10 seats · 4,143 mi range · needs ~4,853 ft here
- Cessna Citation Longitude9–12 seats · 4,028 mi range · needs ~4,915 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3508–9 seats · 3,682 mi range · needs ~4,940 ft here
- Bombardier Challenger 3008–9 seats · 3,527 mi range · needs ~4,915 ft here
Heavy jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Dassault Falcon 900LX12–14 seats · 5,466 mi range · needs ~5,329 ft here
- Gulfstream G45012–14 seats · 5,006 mi range · needs ~5,722 ft here
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS8–10 seats · 4,603 mi range · needs ~4,777 ft here
- Cessna Citation X+8–9 seats · 3,982 mi range · needs ~5,252 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Dassault Falcon 7X, Bombardier Global 7500, Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream G650ER, Bombardier Global 6000 — the shortest of these needs about 5,834 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.