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Chesterfield County Airport is a public
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located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the
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, United States, in unincorporated Chesterfield County. It is owned by Chesterfield County. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter
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for the FAA and
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, Chesterfield County Airport is assigned FCI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.


Facilities and aircraft

Built in 1973, Chesterfield County Airport covers an area of , which contains one
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(15/33) measuring 5,500 x 100 ft (1,676 x 30 m). The runway was completely resurfaced in 2007 and repainted in 2008. Chesterfield County Airport is designated by the FAA as an official general aviation reliever airport for the busier
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. The modern terminal building has internet access, Wi-Fi, flight planning room, showers, vending machines, restaurant, and pilot quiet rooms. Dominion Aviation Services is the fixed-base operator (FBO) at this field. Fuel, flight training, and aircraft rental are available. Dominion is an FAA certified repair station. Chesterfield County Airport is the home base of the Wingnuts Flying Club. The airport is the second busiest in the Richmond region. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, the airport had 67,623 aircraft operations, an average of 185 per day: 97%
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, 1%
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and 1% military. There were at that time 102 aircraft based at this airport: 74 single engine, 14 multi-engine, 8 jet and 6
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Public safety and military

Chesterfield County Airport is home to part of the
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Med-Flight Program and serves as an aviation support facility annex for the
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224th Aviation Regiment. The state police currently has two fixed-wing aircraft and two helicopters based out of their aviation division hangar.Aviation Division
website,
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, accessed 2023-03-10


References

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