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Blackberry Ridge Heliport

IA03 · Iowa City, Iowa · Johnson County · map

Blackberry Ridge Heliport is a private heliport, 2 miles northeast of Iowa City, Iowa, 713 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 33 by 33 feet of grass.

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 IA03
Kind
Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
713 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Chicago sectional
In the FAA's files since
February 2015

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
H133 × 33 ftGrass

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: Iowa City Municipal (3 nm south), The Eastern Iowa Airport (14 nm northwest), Marion Airport (20 nm north), Washington Municipal (26 nm south).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Iowa City Municipal (3 nm south), The Eastern Iowa Airport (14 nm northwest), Mathews Memorial (17 nm east), Marion Airport (20 nm north).

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 Iowa · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

  • 1. Approach/departure route operations shall be conducted on ingress/egress bearings from the heliport of 002 degrees clockwise through 013 degrees (relative to true north) using the center of the landing area as the reference point, and provided the following action is taken: a. Obstructions that penetrate the 8:1 approach/departure surface must be lowered or removed; B. objects that penetrate the object identification surface (as defined by advisory circular (AC) 150/5390-2C, par. 217 and fig. 2-32 must be marked and/or lighted in accordance with AC 70/7460-1. C. no other approach/departure paths may be used unless penetrating obstructions are cleared, lowered, and marked as described above. 2. The fato and safety area must remain clear of objects that exceed two inches above the fato surface elevation. 3. Fixed obstructions with in 100 feet of the helipad safety area that penetrate the object identification surface must be marked or lighted in accordance with AC 150/5390-2 and AC 70/7460-1, as amended. 4. The proponent must insta LL a wind cone in accordance with AC 150/5390-2C, par. 212. 5. At a minimum, the fato must be marked and oriented in accordance with AC 150/5390-2C, as amended. 6. Operations must be limited to VFR weather conditions only. 7. The landing area must be limited to PRIVATE-USE.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Iowa City from the FAA register

102 aircraft are registered to owners in Iowa City, Iowa: 79 piston singles, 10 business jets, 6 helicopters, 4 piston twins, 3 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:

Jet Air INC 41State of Iowa 5State University of Iowa 4Vintage Props LLC 2University of Iowa 2State of Iowa University of Iowa 2

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Iowa.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

Charter operators and airlines based in Iowa City:

Repair stations in Iowa City:

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.

Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IA03.json.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.