Wichita Falls Municipal Airport / Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls, United States — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from SPS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Wichita Falls.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 181 km | 39m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 429 km | 57m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 535 km | 1h 05m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 853 km | 1h 29m |
| Nashville, United States | BNA | 1,100 km | 1h 47m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,251 km | 1h 58m |
| Chicago, United States | MDW | 1,279 km | 2h 01m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 1,283 km | 2h 01m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 1,292 km | 2h 02m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 1,299 km | 2h 02m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SPS
What is the airport code for Wichita Falls?
Wichita Falls Municipal Airport / Sheppard Air Force Base uses the IATA code SPS and the ICAO code KSPS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Wichita Falls Municipal Airport / Sheppard Air Force Base?
It sits at 33.9888° N, 98.4919° W, serving Wichita Falls in United States, at an elevation of 1,019 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
