Sarasota Dept Of Fire-Rescue East Side Heliport
6FL6 · Sarasota, Florida · Sarasota County · map
Sarasota Dept Of Fire-Rescue East Side Heliport is a private heliport owned by Sarasota County in Sarasota, Florida, 25 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 65 by 65 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 6FL6
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Sarasota County
- Elevation
- 25 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- beacon see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1978
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 65 × 65 ft | Concrete |
Aircraft registered in Sarasota from the FAA register
295 aircraft are registered to owners in Sarasota, Florida: 212 piston singles, 31 business jets, 15 turboprops, 15 piston twins, 9 drones. 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 Florida.
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
- VFR; pvt use; coord use of helicopter with state petersburg gado; egress/ingress coordd with Sarasota the control tower. Helicopter operators maintenance radio com with Sarasota the control tower. While in Sarasota airport traffic area.
- 125' ant, lighted and marked, approx 325' north of pad.
- 65'X65' concrete pad within a 100'X100' grass landing/takeoff area.
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.