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

Platform Harvest Heliport

CL68 · Santa Maria, California · Santa Barbara County · map

Platform Harvest Heliport is a private heliport, 31 miles southwest of Santa Maria, California, 178 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 65 by 60 feet of mats.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA CL68
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 178 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: around the clock
Lights: runway lights sunset to sunrise
On the chart: Los Angeles sectional
Magnetic variation: 14E
In the FAA's files since: July 1986

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	65 × 60 ft	Mats	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Santa Maria from the FAA register

76 aircraft are registered to owners in Santa Maria, California: 61 piston singles, 6 business jets, 3 turboprops, 2 helicopters, 2 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:

Santa Maria Valley Crop Service INC 2

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

Lompoc Airport LPC · 16 nm northeast Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field SMX · 28 nm northeast Platform Hermosa Heliport CA00 · 2 nm southeast · private Platform Hidalgo Heliport CL67 · 2 nm northwest · private Vandenberg Space Force Base VBG · 17 nm north · private Platform Ocs P-0188 Hondo Heliport CA98 · 28 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

VFR, private use only.
Approach from the northwest quadrant only.
Altn blue and amber.
Automatic weather observing system (automated weather (AWOS) iii)

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.