Aircraft Disinsection in Charlottesville, VA: Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO)

About Charlottesville Albemarle Airport

Tucked into the Blue Ridge foothills, Charlottesville Albemarle pairs regional airline service with a quietly active corporate ramp. Academic, medical, and estate travel tied to the University of Virginia and the surrounding countryside keeps the FBO fuller than the airport’s size implies. Airline flights reach the major East Coast hubs from a 6,801-ft runway.

On the field at CHO

Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO) sits 7 miles north of Charlottesville, Virginia, at an elevation of 640 feet. Its longest runway, 03/21, measures 6,801 by 150 feet, asphalt. It is a towered field with a Part 139 airport operating certificate. Signature Flight Support operate FBOs here, and we come to the aircraft at any of them. A pre-embarkation treatment here is timed to your boarding and finished before anyone steps aboard.

Where the aircraft disinsection requirement comes from

The requirement belongs to the country you are flying to, and it is met at the last port before that country. Leave Charlottesville non-stop and CHO is that port, so pre-embarkation treatment of the empty aircraft here, before boarding, satisfies the destinations that accept the method. Add a stop and the picture changes; tell us the routing and we will place the treatment correctly.

Departures from CHO that trigger a disinsection requirement are mostly transatlantic. Italy is the one that catches operators most often, because it applies to aircraft arriving from the United States, and Barbados, Brazil, Paraguay follow. A non-stop crossing from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport makes CHO the last port before the destination, which is exactly where pre-embarkation treatment belongs.

The aircraft disinsection process on the CHO ramp

At Charlottesville Albemarle Airport the treatment fits into the normal departure sequence. Catering and cleaning finish, the cabin is confirmed empty, and our technician applies the WHO pre-embarkation treatment through cabin, flight deck and holds. The aircraft rests, ventilates for the required wait, and is released for boarding with the certificate aboard and the treatment details in the crew’s hands for the General Declaration.

CHO at a glance

Countries that require disinsection, served from CHO

From CHO: Chile, Barbados, Brazil, Paraguay, and the rest of the destinations we serve. The full table of aircraft disinsection requirements by country covers every destination we have verified for CHO departures. Australia and New Zealand carry operator paperwork we help with; if either is on a Charlottesville itinerary, start early.