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Emory University Hospital Heliport

7GA8 · Atlanta, Georgia · De Kalb County · map

Emory University Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, 1,051 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 39 by 39 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 7GA8
Kind
Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
Emory University Hospital
Elevation
1,051 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Lights
runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Atlanta sectional
Magnetic variation
2W
In the FAA's files since
May 1991

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

H1N500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

PadLength × widthSurfaceLights
H139 × 39 ftConcretePerimeter lights

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: Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (5 nm north), Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field (10 nm west), Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (11 nm southwest), Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field (19 nm northwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (5 nm north), Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field (10 nm west), Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (11 nm southwest), Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field (19 nm northwest).

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 all operations are conducted in VFR weather conditions; limited to pvt use; takeoff/landing area is marked; a NON-OBSTR wind indicator is maintained; approach/departure operations conducted from 085 to 120 and from 200 to 020; an opnl loa is executed and maintained with VA medical center heliport.
  • Activate rotating beacon - 123.05.
  • Medical use.
  • For noise abatement use steep approach angle, maintain 100 feet above ground level if possible but no less than 500 feet above ground level until approach angle is intercepted; all approach/departure along 150/330.
  • Activate perimeter lights - 123.05.
  • Curtis echols
  • 11 story building 23 feet northeast; 12 feet towers 29 feet south; 42 inch fence 9 feet east; 42 inch fence 0 feet southwest of helipad.
  • Rooftop.
  • Maximum aircraft weight 10000 pounds.

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:

Delta Air Lines INC 1122Georgia Institute of Technology 27Skyfusion II LLC 9Aviation Career Enrichment INC 8Cox Aviation LLC 6Yellow Jacket Flying Club INC 5Homerlease CO INC 5All2Fly LLC 5Etpc Aviation LLC 4City of Atlanta 4

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:

Charter operators and airlines based in Atlanta:

Repair stations in Atlanta (12 of 14, all of them):

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.

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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.