Charlotte/Douglas International
CLT · KCLT · Charlotte, North Carolina · Mecklenburg County · map
Charlotte/Douglas International is a public-use airport owned by the City of Charlotte, 5 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina, 748 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 01R/19L, is 10,000 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives) and about 92 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The receiver network heard 108 different aircraft arrive or depart here in the last seven days. The FAA counts about 578,192 takeoffs and landings a year. About 26,246,497 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Charlotte/Douglas International?
Its FAA code is CLT, and its ICAO code is KCLT.
Where is Charlotte/Douglas International?
It is 5 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina, 748 feet above sea level.
How long is the longest runway at Charlotte/Douglas International?
The longest of its 3 runways, 01R/19L, is 10,000 feet long.
Does Charlotte/Douglas International have a control tower?
Yes, it has a control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Charlotte/Douglas International?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives.
Where can you fly nonstop from Charlotte/Douglas International?
Airline flights go to 8 airports, the busiest of them Laguardia, Orlando International, Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International, Chicago O'Hare International, General Edward Lawrence Logan International. Every route
Are there flight schools at Charlotte/Douglas International?
6 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Foo Flyers LLC and Stanley Aero Club Gastonia INC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Charlotte/Douglas International?
13 pilot examiners and 15 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Charlotte/Douglas International…
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CLT · ICAO KCLT
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Charlotte
- Elevation
- 748 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives; the services card below
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1937
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01R/19L | 10,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 01L/19R | 9,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 8,676 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 01R: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 19L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), road 25 ft high 1,350 ft from the end
- Runway 01L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 19R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 18: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, rr 19 ft high 523 ft from the end
- Runway 36: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), 8,390 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Digital ATIS Arrival | 121.15 | Charlotte |
| Digital ATIS Departure | 132.1 | Charlotte |
| Clearance delivery | 127.15 | Charlotte |
| Clearance delivery | 127.2 | |
| Clearance delivery | 127.25 | Concord |
| Clearance delivery | 127.35 | |
| Clearance delivery | 132.55 | |
| Ground West | 121.8 | Charlotte |
| Ground East | 121.9 | Charlotte |
| Tower Runway 18/36 | 118.1 | Charlotte |
| Tower Runway 01R/19L | 126.4 | Charlotte |
| Tower Runway 01L/19R | 133.35 | Charlotte |
| Approach and departure · Charlotte and dp · Class B airspace 120-295 8000 feet and below; West | 120.05 | Charlotte |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BEAVY) · Departure procedure (BOBZY) 246-074 above 8000 feet; Runway 01L, 01R | 120.5 | Charlotte |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BATTA) · Departure procedure (BEAVY) 075-245 above 8000 feet; Runway 18, 19R, 19L, 36 | 124.0 | Charlotte |
| Approach · Chsly and star · Majic and star | 126.15 | Charlotte |
| Approach and departure · Charlotte and dp · Class B airspace 001-119 8000 feet and below; East | 128.325 | Charlotte |
| Approach and departure · Class B airspace · Departure procedure (BATTA) 296-360 8000 feet and below | 134.75 | Charlotte |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Charlotte |
| Clt and vot | 112.0 | |
| Btsey and star · Filpz and star · Liinn and star | 125.35 | Charlotte |
| Bankr and star · Jonze and star · Jools and star | 135.6 | Charlotte |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 704-255-5973.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, aircraft rental, aircraft sales, aerial surveying
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Gastonia Municipal (10 nm west), Rock Hill/York County/Bryant Field (14 nm south), Concord-Padgett Regional (16 nm northeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in North Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Airport existed prior to 1958.
- Liquid oxygen also available.
- J8 fuel also available.
- A++(military), 100 and O-156 available.
- Engineered materials arresting gear system (emas) 255 feet in length by 170 feet in width at the departure end of runway 36.
- Be alert for flocks of migratory birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Successive or simultaneous departures from runway 18 and runway 19L are approved with course divergence beginning no further than 4 miles from end of runway.
- Runway status lights in operates.
- Taxiway C4 and C6: when taxiing aircraft with cockpit to main gear distance greater than 90 feet, pilot must perform judgemental oversteering instead of cockpit over centerline steering.
- Group IV aircraft with a wingspan gtr than 118 feet are prohibited from exiting runway 18/36 at taxiway C10.
- Taxiway C10 unusable for txg onto runway 18/36.
- Group iii aircraft with a wingspan gtr than 79 feet are prohibited from making a nbnd turn onto taxiway C when taxiing WB on taxiway a.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 252,835 departures from CLT in those twelve months, carrying 24,679,950 passengers in 31,161,374 seats (79% filled), to 268 destinations (55 abroad) on 47 airlines.
All 268 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 8 |
| multi-engine | 6 |
| jets | 66 |
| helicopters | 4 |
| other | 8 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 578,192, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 464,105 |
| air taxi and commuter | 89,219 |
| general aviation, travelling | 24,049 |
| military | 819 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Charlotte from the FAA register
340 aircraft are registered to owners in Charlotte, North Carolina: 204 piston singles, 56 business jets, 20 turboprops, 18 piston twins, 17 helicopters. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Foo Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Charlotte
- Stanley Aero Club Gastonia INC 2 aircraft · Belmont, 5 miles away Stanley Aero Club is a member-owned flying club founded in 1970, based at Gastonia Municipal Airport in Gastonia, North Carolina.
- Stanley Aero Club INC 1 aircraft · Belmont, 5 miles away Stanley Aero Club is a member-owned flying club founded in 1970, based at Gastonia Municipal Airport in Gastonia, North Carolina.
- Cheetah Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Huntersville, 14 miles away
- Lake Norman Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Huntersville, 14 miles away
- Skylane Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Fort Mill, 14 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Charlotte:
- Sterling Aviation, LLC 12 aircraft on the certificate
- Davinci Jets LLC 10 aircraft on the certificate Davinci Jets is a private aviation company based in Charlotte, North Carolina that provides aircraft management, charter services, and maintenance.
- Charter Jet Transport, Inc. 6 aircraft on the certificate Charter Jet Transport is a private aircraft charter company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Hms Holdings, LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate
Repair stations in Charlotte:
- Commander Instruments and Avionics INC Commander Instruments and Avionics is an FAA Part 145 certificated repair station based in Charlotte, North Carolina, specializing in the overhaul, repair, exchange, and testing of aircraft instruments and avionics.
- Davinci Jets Services, LLC Davinci Jets Services is a full-service aircraft management, charter, and maintenance company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Unilode Aviation Solutions US INC
- Victory Lane Aviation, LLC
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
13 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 12 for private pilot, 13 for commercial and instrument, 6 for airline transport pilot, 8 for flight instructor, 5 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 12 for airplanes, 7 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 15 aviation medical examiners, 2 mechanic examiners, 2 engineering representatives, 1 parachute rigger examiner, 9 training center evaluators, 40 aircrew program designees, 2 training center examiners.
- Darrin Murphy private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Gastonia Municipal Airport KAKH · Gastonia, NC (10 nm) · (803) 526-1153 · [email protected]
- Melissa Curtis private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Gastonia Municipal Airport · Gastonia, NC (10 nm) · (757) 435-7865 · [email protected]
- Charles Rosenstein private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes · Stanley, NC (11 nm) · (704) 277-2596 · [email protected]
- Brian Lee Mott commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Fort Mill, SC (15 nm) · (610) 698-3557 · [email protected]
- Guenter Trautmann private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor; airplanes · Indian Land, SC (15 nm) · (803) 818-0626 · [email protected]
- Timothy Standard private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Fort Mill, SC (15 nm) · (706) 836-0442 · [email protected]
- Adam Rosenberg private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Concord, NC (16 nm) · (516) 567-4828 · [email protected]
- Craig Varnum private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor; helicopters · Concord, NC (16 nm) · (704) 724-3655 · [email protected]
All 84 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DPRE: Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner: tests candidates for the parachute rigger certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- APD: Aircrew Program Designee: an airline's own check pilot who gives the FAA's tests to the airline's pilots.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 47 since 1982, 7 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Charlotte 340 aircraft · 204 piston singles, 56 business jets, 20 turboprops
- Hms Holdings LLC 7 aircraft in town
- Dronescape Pllc 5 aircraft in town
- Hellix LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Flycarolina LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Sterling Aviation, LLC 12 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Davinci Jets LLC 10 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Charter Jet Transport, Inc. 6 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Hms Holdings, LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Foo Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Stanley Aero Club Gastonia INC 2 aircraft · flying club
- Stanley Aero Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Commander Instruments and Avionics INC · repair station
- Davinci Jets Services, LLC · repair station
- Unilode Aviation Solutions US INC · repair station
- Victory Lane Aviation, LLC · repair station
- Laguardia (LGA) 4,936 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Republic Airline
- Orlando International (MCO) 4,671 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Frontier Airlines Inc.
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 4,456 flights in twelve months · Delta Air Lines Inc., PSA Airlines Inc.
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 4,311 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., United Air Lines Inc.
- General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS) 3,932 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Republic Airline
- Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) 3,788 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Frontier Airlines Inc.
- Miami International (MIA) 3,700 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Spirit Air Lines
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 3,690 flights in twelve months · American Airlines Inc., Frontier Airlines Inc.
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 47 since 1982 · 7 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,759 since 1982 · 304 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Carolina 106 landing places
- North Carolina 7,133 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CLT.json.
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 22, 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.