Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport

Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET) is a medium airport in Detroit, MI. It carries the IATA code DET. It sits in North America.

Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 5,092-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 5,092 ft (1,552 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport sits near sea level at 626 ft.

Local operations run on America/Detroit. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 2 departing and 3 arriving private-jet legs at DET across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like DET 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.

Coleman A. Young International Airport is six miles northeast of downtown Detroit, in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. It is owned by the City of Detroit. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional general aviation facility. In 2003, it was given its current name in honor of the late former mayor of Detroit Coleman A. Young.