KCHO is the ICAO code for Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (IATA CHO), located in Charlottesville, VA.
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (KCHO) is a medium airport in Charlottesville, VA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KCHO or IATA code CHO. It sits in North America.
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.
The longest runway measures 6,801 ft (2,073 m), a midsize and super-midsize-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Citation Longitude, Challenger 350, and Gulfstream G280. In practice this comfortable for most midsize and super-mid charter equipment.
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport sits near sea level at 639 ft.
Local operations run on America/New_York. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.
SkyAccess currently tracks 156 departing and 290 arriving private-jet legs at KCHO across the next six months of operator inventory. 15 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KCHO are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.