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 heliport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this heliport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: San Francisco International (8 nm southeast), Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (13 nm east), San Carlos Airport (17 nm southeast), Hayward Executive (18 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: San Francisco International (8 nm southeast), Half Moon Bay Airport (12 nm south), Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (13 nm east), San Carlos Airport (17 nm southeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in California · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in San Francisco from the FAA register
295 aircraft are registered to owners in San Francisco, California: 154 piston singles, 58 drones, 32 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in San Francisco, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Eagles Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · San Francisco, 10 miles away
- Pacer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Millbrae, 10 miles away
- Alameda Aero Club 7 aircraft · Alameda, 13 miles away Alameda Aero Club is a nonprofit, volunteer-operated flying club based at Oakland International Airport's North Field.
- Sundance Air Services INC 3 aircraft · Alameda, 13 miles away Sundance Air Services provides aircraft maintenance and repair services, aircraft rental, and flight instruction at Oakland Airport in Alameda, California.
Repair stations in San Francisco:
Companies in the same town as this heliport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this heliport
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in San Francisco 295 aircraft · 154 piston singles, 58 drones, 32 business jets
- Zipline International INC 53 aircraft in town
- Tc Flight LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Tc Business Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Sigma Equity LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Ksx Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Eagles Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Pacer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Alameda Aero Club 7 aircraft · flying club
- Legacy Aircraft Instruments INC · repair station
- United Airlines INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/16CA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.