Southern Helicopters Airport
21LA · Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Iberville County · map
Southern Helicopters Airport is a private airport owned by Southern Helicopters INC, 15 miles south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 28 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 1,850 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 21LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Southern Helicopters INC
- Elevation
- 28 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 1,850 × 100 ft | Grass |
Aircraft registered in Baton Rouge from the FAA register
227 aircraft are registered to owners in Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 120 piston singles, 28 business jets, 21 turboprops, 19 drones, 17 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 1749 feet tower 1.1 miles east of airport.
- Helicopter operations on airport.
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.