General aviation field
Morning Star Ranch Airport, Del Rio.
- Longest paved runway
- 4,200 ft
- Field elevation
- 1,500 ft
- Runway-capable types
- 8 of 24
- Coordinates
- 29.79, -100.88
Morning Star Ranch Airport's 4,200 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 323 jet-capable fields in Texas, at 1,500 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 Austin, 193 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.
- 193 mi1 h 01 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 318 mi1 h 22 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 336 mi1 h 25 mShort legpriced at the daily minimum
- 700 mi2 h 29 mfrom $4,977one way, all‑in indicative
- 712 mi2 h 31 mfrom $5,067one way, all‑in indicative
- 713 mi2 h 31 mfrom $5,076one way, all‑in indicative
- 735 mi2 h 35 mfrom $5,231one way, all‑in indicative
- 931 mi3 h 09 mfrom $6,623one 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 ~2,769 ft here
- Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,448 ft here
Light jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,563 ft here
- Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,323 ft here
- Embraer Phenom 3006–8 seats · 2,313 mi range · needs ~3,865 ft here
- Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,354 ft here
Midsize jet
Seats, range and runway needed, by type
- Cessna Citation Latitude8–9 seats · 3,107 mi range · needs ~3,741 ft here
- Cessna Citation XLS+8–9 seats · 2,417 mi range · needs ~3,720 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 4,885 ft here.
Alternates
Nearby alternates
The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.