Airports · California · heliport · FAA file effective October 29, 2026

Quincy Helitack Base Heliport

72CA · Quincy, California · Plumas County · map

Quincy Helitack Base Heliport is a private heliport owned by the U.S. Forest Service, 3 miles north of Quincy, California, 3,500 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 30 by 25 feet of concrete.

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 72CA
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
Owner: U.S. Forest Service
Elevation: 3,500 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Fuel and services: no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart: San Francisco sectional
Magnetic variation: 17E
In the FAA's files since: September 1982

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	30 × 25 ft	Concrete

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: Rogers Field (23 nm northwest), Nervino Airport (29 nm east), Susanville Municipal (29 nm northeast), Oroville Municipal (43 nm southwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Gansner Field (2 nm south), Rogers Field (23 nm northwest), Nervino Airport (29 nm east), Susanville Municipal (29 nm northeast).

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

VFR; pvt use.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Quincy from the FAA register

19 aircraft are registered to owners in Quincy, California: 19 piston singles. 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:

Mountain Air INC 4

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.

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

Gansner Field 2O1 · 2 nm south Rogers Field O05 · 23 nm northwest Nervino Airport O02 · 29 nm east Susanville Municipal SVE · 29 nm northeast Plumas District Hospital Heliport CL94 · 2 nm southwest · private Palmaz Ranch Heliport 5CN5 · 9 nm northeast · private Plumas Hospital District Heliport 30CA · 10 nm north · private Rodgers Flat Heliport CN26 · 16 nm west · private

Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Quincy 19 aircraft · 19 piston singles
Mountain Air INC 4 aircraft in town

Record

Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
California 27,673 aircraft registered

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/72CA.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 29, 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.