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Emergency response teams are responding to Chesapeake Municipal Airport for a reported plane crash.
A plane crash has been reported at Chesapeake Municipal Airport, according to Virginia State Police. State Police received a call around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday about the incident. The Chesapeake Fire Department tweeted that “units are on the scene of a plane crash at Chesapeake Municipal Airport” and that limited information is limited at this time.
Chesapeake Regional Airport is a public use airport located in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia and serving the Hampton Roads area. The airport is 12 nautical miles south of the central business district of Norfolk, Virginia. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned CPK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.
Chesapeake Regional Airport covers an area of 430 acres at an elevation of 19 feet above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 5/23 which measures 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m). For the 12-month period ending March 30, 2012, the airport had 35,361 aircraft operations, an average of 97 per day: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi and 1% military. At that time there were 94 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-engine, 9% multi-engine, 4% jet, 2% ultralight and 1% helicopter.
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