General aviation field
Seward Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,200 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,506 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 40.86, -97.11
Seward Municipal Airport's 4,200 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 48 jet-capable fields in Nebraska, at 1,506 ft elevation, where the performance penalty is small but not zero. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Denver, 418 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.
- 418 mi1 h 40 mfrom $2,972one way, all‑in indicative
- 484 mi1 h 51 mfrom $3,447one way, all‑in indicative
- 528 mi1 h 59 mfrom $3,758one way, all‑in indicative
- 555 mi2 h 03 mfrom $3,946one way, all‑in indicative
- 651 mi2 h 20 mfrom $4,634one way, all‑in indicative
- 722 mi2 h 32 mfrom $5,133one way, all‑in indicative
- 738 mi2 h 35 mfrom $5,248one way, all‑in indicative
- 781 mi2 h 43 mfrom $5,559one 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.
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 ~2,770 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,449 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,564 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,324 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,866 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,355 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,742 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,721 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 4,886 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.