Ruffwood Heliport
73GA · Atlanta, Georgia · Fulton County · map
Ruffwood Heliport is a private heliport owned by Ruffwood INC., 7 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia, 780 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 75 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 73GA
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Ruffwood INC.
- Elevation
- 780 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1991
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 75 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
- Runway H1: right-hand traffic pattern
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: Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field (7 nm southwest), Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (7 nm east), Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field (11 nm northwest), Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (15 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field (7 nm southwest), Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (7 nm east), Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field (11 nm northwest), Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (15 nm south).
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 Georgia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided operations conducted in VFR weather conditions; landing for pvt use only; approach/departure conducted area 40 degrees to 60 degrees and 220 degrees to 240 degrees clockwise; takeoff/landing area appro. Marked; maintain wind indicator.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Atlanta from the FAA register
1,587 aircraft are registered to owners in Atlanta, Georgia: 1,122 airliners and large jets, 230 piston singles, 105 business jets, 38 drones, 30 piston twins. 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 Georgia.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Atlanta, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Lge Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · Marietta, 8 miles away LGE Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based in Marietta, Georgia, where members share ownership of aircraft.
- Hollywood of the South Flight School LTD 1 aircraft · Decatur, 11 miles away The Flight School Inc.
- Bonanza Five Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · Roswell, 12 miles away
- Atlanta Air Academy LLC 4 aircraft · Kennesaw, 14 miles away Atlanta Air Academy is an FAA-approved Part 61 flight school based at Cobb County International Airport in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Charter operators and airlines based in Atlanta:
- Epps Air Service, LLC 6 aircraft on the certificate
Repair stations in Atlanta (12 of 14, all of them):
- Barfield Precision Electronics, LLC
- Delta Air Lines INC Delta TechOps is a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider based in Atlanta, Georgia, offering engine maintenance, component maintenance, and line maintenance services to Delta Air Lines and over 150 other aviation customers worldwi
- Delta Flight Products LLC Delta Flight Products is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that designs, engineers, manufactures, and certifies aircraft interior solutions including cabin reconfiguration, furnishings, galleys, and technological systems.
- Envirotainer INC
- Epps Air Service LLC Aero Centers operates an integrated network of fixed base operators (FBOs) at multiple airports, providing aviation ground handling, aircraft fueling, hangar space, and private charter services.
- Pfm Maintenance, LLC. PFM Maintenance is a Part 145 repair station providing general maintenance, avionics, sheet metal, and interior work for general aviation aircraft at PDK (Chamblee, Georgia).
- Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, INC
- Precision Aviation Group INC Precision Aviation Group is a maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider with 26 global repair stations serving fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft operators.
- Prestige Helicopters INC Prestige Helicopters, Inc.
- Rockwell Collins INC
- Safetech USA INC
- Smart Airparts PC
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 Atlanta 1,587 aircraft · 1122 airliners and large jets, 230 piston singles, 105 business jets
- Delta Air Lines INC 1,122 aircraft in town
- Georgia Institute of Technology 27 aircraft in town
- Skyfusion II LLC 9 aircraft in town
- Aviation Career Enrichment INC 8 aircraft in town
- R & R Aviation Support LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Sfg Falcon Hangar LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Trimble Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Epps Air Service, LLC 6 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Lge Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Hollywood of the South Flight School LTD 1 aircraft · flight school
- Bonanza Five Flying Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Barfield Precision Electronics, LLC · repair station
- Delta Air Lines INC · repair station
- Delta Flight Products LLC · repair station
- Envirotainer INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Georgia 2,135 since 1982 · 360 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Georgia 105 landing places
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/73GA.json.
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 23, 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.