Chattanooga's local airport is located just a few minutes from the downtown area and most hotels in the city. Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport is a regional facility servicing other regional airports as well as nine major ones. Direct flights to Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Memphis, Orlando, the District of Columbia and Tampa are available.
Although it is a small airport, the facility has many of the same basic amenities of larger hubs. There are ATMs and free wireless Internet connections throughout the airport. Visitors can also take advantage of a business center with free local calls, data ports, snacks and beverages, newspapers and a television viewing area.
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
1001 Airport Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421
423-855-2202
chattairport.com
Visitors arriving in private aircraft may choose to contact the owner of Lookout Mountain Airport. This privately owned facility located in Dade County, Georgia, on Lookout Mountain is 563 feet above sea level and is built on 45 acres.
Lookout Mountain Airport only has one runway, a turf runway suitable for single-engine aircraft. The runway is 2000 feet long and 50 feet wide.
Lookout Mountain Airport
7201 Scenic Highway 189
Rising Fawn, GA 30738
706-398-3541
no website
Located just 11 miles north of Chattanooga in the town of Hixon, Dallas Bay Sky Park is a public use airport and hangar facility that is privately owned. The facility has two small runways, a fueling station and a selection of hangers and tie-downs for pilots wishing to park their planes here.
Dallas Bay operates an average of 70 flights from the airport each week and is home to 35 aircraft, including 32 single engine planes and one helicopter. The small airport is used primarily for local aviation and as a flight school. A small percentage of flights are planes from other areas in transit to other locations that stop in Hixon for refueling or other needs.
Dallas Bay Sky Park
1824 East Crabtree Road
Hixson, TN 37343
423-842-9845
hixsonaviation.com
