The Chesapeake Regional Airport

T he Chesapeake Regional Airport is a general aviation and reliever airport located in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia and serving the Hampton Roads area, including Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. The airport is 12 miles south of the central business district of Norfolk, and covers an area of 430 acres. The facility, which is owned and operated by the Chesapeake Airport Authority, opened in 1978, as replace- ment for a nearby grass strip that was slated to be repurposed into a business center. “This was the most logical area,” says Airport Manag- er, Chris Schrantz. “It had been used as a paper pulp farm by Weyerhaeuser, so it eliminated the displacing of the general population be- cause it was already a business in the area. It actually suited the Airport well.” With 81 tie-down locations and 88 T-hangars, the Airport is home to a wide variety of private pilots, and currently, there are 115 GA aircraft