Regional airport
Talkeetna Airport.
- Longest paved runway
- 3,500 ft
- Field elevation
- 358 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 5 of 24
- Coordinates
- 62.32, -150.09
Talkeetna Airport's 3,500 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 56 jet-capable fields in Alaska, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 5 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 19. The nearest city we publish corridors for is Bozeman, 1,903 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.
- 1,903 mi3 h 58 mfrom $28,089one way, all‑in indicative
- 1,934 mi4 h 02 mfrom $28,548one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,035 mi4 h 13 mfrom $30,025one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,036 mi4 h 13 mfrom $30,042one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,081 mi4 h 18 mfrom $30,705one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,348 mi4 h 47 mfrom $34,645one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,378 mi4 h 51 mfrom $35,086one way, all‑in indicative
- 2,397 mi4 h 53 mfrom $35,375one 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 ~2,678 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,335 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,447 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,214 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,244 ft here
Ruled out by runway length: Cessna Citation XLS+, Cessna Citation Latitude, Embraer Phenom 300, Dassault Falcon 2000LXS, Embraer Praetor 600, Gulfstream G280 and 13 more — the shortest of these needs about 3,598 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.