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

Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport

DT1 · Fort Lauderdale, Florida · Broward County · map

Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport is a public-use heliport owned by the City of Fort Lauderdale in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 114 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 84 by 84 feet of concrete.

The airport

Codes: FAA DT1
Kind: Heliport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner: City of Fort Lauderdale
Elevation: 114 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: every day, irregular hours
Lights: runway lights sunset to sunrise
On the chart: Miami sectional
Magnetic variation: 5W
In the FAA's files since: May 2002

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	84 × 84 ft	Concrete, good	Medium-intensity lights

Runway H1: building 23 ft high 183 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM

123.05

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Aircraft registered in Fort Lauderdale from the FAA register

603 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Lauderdale, Florida: 207 piston singles, 171 business jets, 78 turboprops, 62 piston twins, 50 helicopters. 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:

Gold Coast Aviation 14 Aviation Resource Group INC 13 Islander Holdings LTD 10 Airman Helicopter INC 10 Premier Aircraft Sales INC 9 Flydreams Aircraft Group INC 9 Aero Jet Aviation I INC 8 Southern Cross Aircraft LLC 6 Logos Aviation INC 6 Broward County Sheriffs Office 6

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

2018-01-24ERA18LA068 · Schweizer 269C N3947C · accident · no injuries

Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International FLL · 3 nm south Fort Lauderdale Executive FXE · 5 nm north Pompano Beach Airpark PMP · 8 nm north North Perry Airport HWO · 9 nm southwest Miami-Opa Locka Executive OPF · 15 nm southwest Boca Raton Airport BCT · 16 nm north Miami X44 · 21 nm south Miami International MIA · 21 nm south

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

See airspace case 93-ORL-970-NRA.
Contact fll the control tower on frequency 119.3 prior to entering fll class C airspace and upon TAKE-OFF.
Airport physical address: 201 southeast 2ND ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Perimeter lights.
Standard heliport markings - good condition.
Buildings in the vicinity of heliport northeast, southeast, and southwest.
Prior permission required to use parking position, all hours.
No TAKE-OFFS or landings at eastern parking position.
Repetitive flight training and student solos discouraged.
Noise sensitive areas all quadrants.
Primary approach 145 degreess true crs inbound. Secondary approach 027 degreess true crs inbound.
Rooftop facility.

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.