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Defense Supply Center Richmond Heliport

VG17 · Richmond, Virginia · Chesterfield County · map

Defense Supply Center Richmond Heliport is a private heliport owned by the U.S. Army, 10 miles north of Richmond, Virginia, 115 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 98 by 98 feet of asphalt.

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 VG17
Kind
Heliport · private use, permission required · owned by the Army
Owner
U.S. Army
Elevation
115 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Lights
runway lights sunset to sunrise
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Washington sectional
Magnetic variation
9W
In the FAA's files since
February 2000

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
H198 × 98 ftAsphalt, goodPerimeter lights

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: Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County (4 nm west), Richmond International (8 nm northeast), Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (15 nm south), Hanover County Municipal (17 nm north).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Richmond Exec/Chesterfield County (4 nm west), Richmond International (8 nm northeast), Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (15 nm south), New Kent County (16 nm east).

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 Virginia · avgas.

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

  • Provided accurate ingress/egress route, clear 8:1 slope, appropriate ingress/egress markings, lighted windsock for night operations, control vehicular traffic durg helicopter operations, red obstruction light fence at south edge of pad.

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

Aircraft registered in Richmond from the FAA register

140 aircraft are registered to owners in Richmond, Virginia: 83 piston singles, 19 business jets, 15 helicopters, 12 piston twins, 6 turboprops. 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:

Mid-Atlantic Air Ventures INC 16First Eclipse LTD 8First Eclipse Limited 4Commonwealth of Virginia 4Apple Realty Group INC 3Virginia State Police 2November Tango LLC 2Dominion Energy Services INC 2Cca Holdings LLC 2

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

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:

  • Wing Nuts Flying Club LTD 1 aircraft · North Chesterfield, 2 miles away Wing Nuts Flying Club is a flying club located at Richmond Executive Airport in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
  • Air Tech Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Chesterfield, 8 miles away
  • Bantle Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · North Chesterfield, 8 miles away RVA Flyers is a flight school located in Richmond, Virginia that provides pilot training programs including Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Drone License certifications.
  • Airtime Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Richmond, 9 miles away
  • Avf Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Richmond, 9 miles away
  • Rva Flyers Fleet LLC 1 aircraft · Richmond, 9 miles away RVA Flyers is a flight school located in Richmond, Virginia that provides pilot training programs including Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Drone License certifications.

Charter operators and airlines based in Richmond:

Repair stations in Richmond:

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/VG17.json.

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 26, 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.