Heavy jets carry the Martha’s Vineyard trips where the passenger count and the distance both climb at once, with a full galley and a cabin built for a long day.
Heavy Jets We Arrange from Martha’s Vineyard
Every aircraft in this category has its own page with cabin, range, seating and a charter pricing reference. 17 are listed below.
- Bombardier Challenger 650
- Cessna Citation Hemisphere
- Challenger 600
- Challenger 601
- Challenger 604
- Challenger 605
- Dassault Falcon 2000LXS
- Dassault Falcon 2000S
- Dassault Falcon 900EX
- Dassault Falcon 900LX
- Falcon 2000
- Falcon 900
- Gulfstream 2 / IIB / II-SP
- Gulfstream G350
- Gulfstream III / G3
- Gulfstream IV
- Legacy 600 / 650
When Heavy Jets Fit the Martha’s Vineyard Trip
These are the aircraft clients choose when a group needs to arrive rested after a transcontinental or transatlantic leg. Anything international clears customs on the mainland before it goes on, since the island has none.
The runway required on the day is a performance calculation the operator makes for that aircraft, at that weight, in the conditions on your date, so we confirm it with them for your specific trip rather than working from a general figure.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Martha’s Vineyard Patterns We Plan Around
Martha’s Vineyard Airport is the island’s only airport, so the choice most clients are really making is the aircraft and the timing rather than the field. The main runway is 5,504 feet by 100, with an ILS approach to runway 24, and there is a second runway of 3,327 by 75 feet in fair condition. Whether a particular aircraft can use either on your date is a performance calculation the operator makes, and we confirm it with them rather than assuming it.
Aircraft with more than nine passenger seats need twenty-four hours’ prior permission, which covers most midsize and larger charter jets. Your advisor makes that call, and it is the reason we ask for your dates as early as you can give them. The same rule at Nantucket asks for two hours, so if you are booking late and either island would do, that difference usually decides it.
The tower keeps two sets of hours: six in the morning until ten at night from the middle of May to the end of October, and seven until five in the afternoon from the first of November to the middle of May. That winter close is earlier than most people expect and it is worth checking an off-season itinerary against it. There is no customs on the island, so an international trip clears on the mainland first, and Cape Cod Gateway Airport at Hyannis is the nearest customs landing rights airport.
Contact
Call 1-888-987-5387 or request a quote and we will come back with aircraft that fit the trip. The phone is answered at any hour, on any day of the year. For how we review the operator behind every flight, see our safety page, and for the full fleet see our aircraft guide.