Cortez Municipal Airport

Cortez Municipal Airport (KCEZ) is a medium airport in Cortez, CO. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KCEZ or IATA code CEZ. It sits in North America.

Cortez Municipal Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 7,205 ft (2,196 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Cortez Municipal Airport sits at 5,918 ft above sea level. Hot-and-high conditions can meaningfully reduce takeoff performance in summer — planners should factor density altitude into payload and fuel decisions.

Local operations run on America/Denver. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 0 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at KCEZ across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KCEZ are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Cortez Municipal Airport is three miles (4.8 km) southwest of Cortez, in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It has passenger service from one airline: Key Lime Air DBA Denver Air Connection.