Airports · California · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Platform Henry Heliport

8CA7 · Carpinteria, California · Santa Barbara County · map

Platform Henry Heliport is a private heliport, 4 miles west of Carpinteria, California, 111 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 58 by 55 feet of mats.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 8CA7
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 111 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Los Angeles sectional
Magnetic variation: 14E
In the FAA's files since: December 1980

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	58 × 55 ft	Mats	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Carpinteria from the FAA register

14 aircraft are registered to owners in Carpinteria, California: 10 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Santa Barbara Municipal SBA · 15 nm west Oxnard Airport OXR · 19 nm southeast Camarillo Airport CMA · 24 nm east Santa Paula Airport SZP · 25 nm east Platform Hillhouse Heliport 33CN · 2 nm west · private Dcor Platform Habitat Heliport 49CA · 3 nm southwest · private Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Heliport 3CN2 · 10 nm northwest · private Community Memorial Hospital Heliport CA72 · 15 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

E111: pvt use; VFR conditions only.
20 60W lamps around perimeter.
Lighted drilling rig and crane.
Reinforced structural steel plate surface 12000 pounds rated.

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.