Jacksonville Pre-Trial Detention Facility Heliport
FD87 · Jacksonville, Florida · Duval County · map
Jacksonville Pre-Trial Detention Facility Heliport is a private heliport owned by Office of the Sheriff in Jacksonville, Florida, 162 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 58 by 58 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FD87
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Office of the Sheriff
- Elevation
- 162 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- IREG, around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1990
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 58 × 58 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
Aircraft registered in Jacksonville from the FAA register
509 aircraft are registered to owners in Jacksonville, Florida: 367 piston singles, 42 piston twins, 36 business jets, 22 turboprops, 12 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided VFR/pvt use;ltr of agrmt west/jacksonville police memorial building heliport; approach/departure operations 360-070 degrees and 170-200 degrees; takeoff/landing area appropriately marked; NON-OBSTRUCTING wind indicator.
- All approach/departure helicopter operations to be conducted from 360-070 degrees and from 170-200 degrees using touchdown pad as cntr of a compass rose.
- The microphone williams - sheriff
- And flood lights.
- 1003' ant 2 1/2 MI southeast of pad; 638' ant 1 MI southwest; 833' ant 3 MI south.
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.