CHA

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field)

ICAO KCHA35.0353°N 85.2038°W683 ft / 208 mMedium airport
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Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
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Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) (IATA: CHA, ICAO: KCHA) is a medium airport in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. It opened in Nov 1937. It has 2 runways; the longest is 7,400 ft (2,256 m). In 2025 it handled 1.3 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1937–1937
NOV 1937
OpenedChattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport TerminalWilson Air Center
02/20017° / 197° · LIT
LENGTH7,400 ft2,256 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
15/33145° / 325° · LIT
LENGTH5,575 ft1,699 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
702K
797K
854K
972K
1.0M
1.1M
453K
759K
868K
978K
1.1M
1.3M
141516171819202122232425

Routes

10 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsAmerican Eagle 5Allegiant Air 4FedEx Express 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CHA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport” (revision of 10 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.3M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#734of 3,974 · #178 North America · #126 USLongest runway7,400 ft2,256 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,169of 29,823 · =695 North America · =518 USElevation683 ft208 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=23,732of 43,341 · =11,346 North America · =9,407 USAgeOpened 19372026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=703of 15,079 · =141 North America · =123 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

10 channels
APPCHATTANOOGA APP119.200
APPCHATTANOOGA APP122.500
ATISATIS119.850
CLDCLNC DEL120.950
CTAFCTAF118.300
DEPCHATTANOOGA DEP119.200
GNDGND121.700
OPSARNG OPS41.500
TWRCHATTANOOGA TWR118.300
UNICUNICOM122.950