Lovell Field
CHA · KCHA · Chattanooga, Tennessee · Hamilton County · map
Lovell Field is a public-use airport, 5 miles east of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 682 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 02/20, is 7,400 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CHA · ICAO KCHA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 682 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 6:00 am to 11:50 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 7,400 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 5,575 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 7,100 ft available for landing
- Runway 20: ILS, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), rr 28 ft high 850 ft from the end
- Runway 15: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 106 ft, 5,470 ft available for landing, trees 3 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 575 ft, 5,000 ft available for landing, trees 44 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.3 | Chattanooga |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Cha and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.85 | Chattanooga |
| Clearance delivery | 120.25 | |
| Clearance delivery | 120.95 | Chattanooga |
| Ground | 121.7 | Chattanooga |
| Approach and departure | 119.2 | |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace | 125.1 | Chattanooga |
| Approach (secondary) | 126.5 | Chattanooga |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Chattanooga |
| Chattanooga and center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.05 | Chattanooga |
| Ng and operations | 149.8 | Chattanooga |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 423-668-0530.
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Aircraft registered in Chattanooga from the FAA register
132 aircraft are registered to owners in Chattanooga, Tennessee: 72 piston singles, 33 business jets, 8 piston twins, 7 turboprops, 5 drones. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Index C available.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 02; tdzl runway 20; centerline lights runway 02/20; high-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 unavailable when the control tower closed.
- Approach slope 25:1 to displaced threshold.
- Approach slope 25:1 to displaced threshold.
- Transient aircraft avoid scty zone WI 300 feet of terminal building.
- Birds in the vicinity of airport.
- Hold short instr read back required.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.