Regional airport
San Carlos Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 2,621 ft
- Field elevation
- 5 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 0 of 24
- Coordinates
- 37.51, -122.25
What our brokers know about KSQL
Peninsula field; light and midsize aircraft
San Carlos Airport's 2,621 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. None of the 24 types we publish specifications for clears it at this elevation. 24 published route pages reach San Francisco through this field.
Access
Getting here
Straight-line distances from the cities we publish, with a typical aircraft's block time including taxi, climb and descent.
- 48 mi35 minfrom $2,838one 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.
Corridors
Charter routes through San Francisco
Corridors we quote regularly, shortest first. Each carries the cabins that fly it, block times and the fields at both ends.
- 311 mi1 h 21 mfrom $2,838one way, all‑in indicative
- 405 mi1 h 37 mfrom $2,882one way, all‑in indicative
- 588 mi2 h 09 mfrom $4,183one way, all‑in indicative
- 640 mi2 h 18 mfrom $4,552one way, all‑in indicative
- 735 mi2 h 35 mfrom $5,231one way, all‑in indicative
- 808 mi2 h 47 mfrom $5,747one way, all‑in indicative
- 840 mi2 h 53 mfrom $5,976one way, all‑in indicative
- 949 mi3 h 12 mfrom $6,754one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,239 mi2 h 54 mfrom $9,530one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,465 mi3 h 21 mfrom $11,265one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,493 mi3 h 24 mfrom $11,477one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,638 mi3 h 41 mfrom $17,747one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,838 mi4 h 05 mfrom $19,917one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,959 mi4 h 04 mfrom $28,905one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,384 mi4 h 52 mfrom $35,188one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,409 mi4 h 54 mfrom $35,545one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,481 mi5 h 02 mfrom $36,615one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,555 mi5 h 10 mfrom $37,702one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,558 mi5 h 11 mfrom $37,753one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,571 mi5 h 12 mfrom $37,939one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,679 mi5 h 24 mfrom $39,536one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,753 mi5 h 32 mfrom $40,623one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,757 mi5 h 33 mfrom $40,691one way, all‑in indicative
- 3,618 mi7 h 00 mfrom $73,809one way, all‑in indicative
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.
None of the types we publish specifications for clear this runway at this elevation. That does not mean nothing can land — it means the right aircraft sits outside our published set, and a broker should size it by hand.
Ruled out by runway length: Pilatus PC-12, Cessna Citation CJ3+, Cessna Citation M2, Beechcraft King Air 350, Cessna Citation CJ4, Cessna Citation XLS+ and 18 more — the shortest of these needs about 2,650 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.