General aviation field
Vaughn Municipal Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 5,150 ft
- Field elevation
- 5,928 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 34.60, -105.19
Vaughn Municipal Airport's 5,150 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 57 jet-capable fields in New Mexico, and at 5,928 ft the field is high enough that density altitude takes a real bite out of what that runway will accept on a warm afternoon. 8 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 16. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Aspen, 333 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.
- 333 mi1 h 25 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 344 mi1 h 27 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 390 mi1 h 35 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 494 mi1 h 53 mfrom $3,512one way, all‑in indicative
- 534 mi2 h 00 mfrom $3,799one way, all‑in indicative
- 571 mi2 h 06 mfrom $4,061one way, all‑in indicative
- 673 mi2 h 24 mfrom $4,789one way, all‑in indicative
- 689 mi2 h 27 mfrom $4,904one 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 ~3,121 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,887 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~4,016 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,746 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~4,357 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,781 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~4,217 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~4,193 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 5,506 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.