Charlottesville Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport (IATA: CHO, ICAO: KCHO, FAA LID: CHO) is an airport eight miles north of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States. It opened in 1955 and serves the Central Virginia and Shenandoah Valley region with non-stop flights to five major cities on three airlines' subsidiaries. CHO underwent major construction in summer 2006; an 800-foot runway extension began in summer 2010 and was completed in December 2012. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. Federal Aviation Administration records say it had 214,395 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2021 and 262,889 in 2022. The Charlottesville Albemarle Airport Authority says there were 628,611 total passengers (enplaned and deplaned) in fiscal year 2017. Piedmont Airlines DC-3s arrived in 1955; the first jets were Piedmont 727s in 1967 (the runway was extended from 4661 ft to 6000 ft at about that time). As of July 2026, the airport was served by ERJ-145, E175, CRJ-700, CRJ-900, and B717-200 aircraft.
Location
38.139°N, 78.453°O · 195 m s. n. m. (639 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 6 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 222 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 4
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO
MLA
“Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO (Accessed: 16 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/CHO}},
urldate = {2026-10-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}Wikipedia
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