Tusquitee Heliport
NC53 · Murphy, North Carolina · Cherokee County · map
Tusquitee Heliport is a private heliport owned by the US Forest Service, 1 mile southeast of Murphy, North Carolina, 1,528 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 150 by 150 feet of concrete.
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 NC53
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Forest Service
- Elevation
- 1,528 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1975
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 150 × 150 ft | Concrete |
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: Western Carolina Regional (11 nm northeast), Blairsville Airport (14 nm south), Macon County (31 nm east), Mcminn County (32 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Western Carolina Regional (11 nm northeast), Blairsville Airport (14 nm south), Martin Campbell Field (16 nm west), Lumpkin County-Wimpys (30 nm south).
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 North Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR, pvt use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Murphy from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Murphy, North Carolina: 21 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 glider. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
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:
- Smoky Mountain Flyers 1 aircraft · Murphy, 1 mile away
- Tusquittee Flyers Aero Club LLC 1 aircraft · Hayesville, 12 miles away Tusquittee Flyers is a flying club based at a privately owned and maintained airfield in the Nantahala National Forest near Hayesville, North Carolina.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Murphy 27 aircraft · 21 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 1 turboprops
- Valley River Leasing INC 6 aircraft in town
- Wells & West INC 2 aircraft in town
- Smoky Mountain Flyers 1 aircraft · flight school
- Tusquittee Flyers Aero Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,759 since 1982 · 304 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Carolina 106 landing places
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NC53.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 28, 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.