Police Pistol Range Heliport
16CA · San Francisco, California · San Francisco County · map
Police Pistol Range Heliport is a private heliport owned by the City of San Francisco in San Francisco, California, 24 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 150 by 100 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 16CA
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of San Francisco
- Elevation
- 24 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1980
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 150 × 100 ft | Asphalt |
Aircraft registered in San Francisco from the FAA register
294 aircraft are registered to owners in San Francisco, California: 153 piston singles, 58 drones, 31 business jets, 21 turboprops, 10 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided approach/departure is over lake merced; limited to VFR, personal use; install wind indicator; mark landing area.
- Helicopter restrd to Police department only - do not chart.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.