Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
CHO · KCHO · Charlottesville, Virginia · Albemarle County · map
Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport is a public-use airport, 7 miles north of Charlottesville, Virginia, 640 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 6,801 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KCHO · observed 3:53 pm EDT (19:53 UTC), 42 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north (350°) at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 65°F (18°C), dew point 40°F (4°C)
- Altimeter 30.12 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 1:23 pm EDT (17:23 UTC), good until Wed 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the southwest at 4 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 7:00 pm EDT (23:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Wed 12:00 pm EDT (16:00 UTC): wind from the south at 7 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KCHO 061953Z 35003KT 10SM CLR 18/04 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP198 T01830044
TAF KCHO 061723Z 0618/0718 22004KT P6SM SKC FM062300 00000KT P6SM SKC FM071600 19007KT P6SM SKC
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CHO · ICAO KCHO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 640 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 11:00 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
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,801 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the right
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.5 | Charlottesville |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 118.425 | Charlottesville |
| Ground | 121.9 | Charlottesville |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 120.525 | Charlottesville |
| Approach and departure | 132.85 | Charlottesville |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Charlottesville |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 434-975-0110.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Charlottesville from the FAA register
61 aircraft are registered to owners in Charlottesville, Virginia: 39 piston singles, 10 turboprops, 4 business jets, 3 helicopters, 2 gliders. 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 Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 6 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- When the control tower closed high-intensity runway lights runway 03/21, and taxiway lights preset low intst. To activate and increase intst approach lights (MALSR) runway 03; runway end identifier lights runway 21; high-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 and taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Landing fee only for aircraft over 7000 pounds.
- X104.
- +7 feet obstruction lighted eqpt box rack 78 feet from aer, 250 feet L.
- Unusable beyond 6.5 degrees L of rcl.
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.