Calgary Heliport System

[MalcolmTucker]

Calgary's Heliports (Google Map Here)

City Planning Document: Calgary Heliports System Plan

Private:

Westport

17th Ave & 74th St SW
Pad & Hangar in backyard

Southport

~Southland & MacLeod Trail
Pad, table, hangar & lounge on top floor of 5 story office building

Broadcast House

Patina Rise SW
Defunct, past use for CFCN TV & Radio

Government

Bow Crow (provincial fire fighting)

East of Stoney Trail on Bearspaw Dam Rd
Pad

CFB Currie & Harvey
Next to the two officers' messes.
Field, both defunct, Currie still in existence

Emergency Medical

Foothills (2)

North East - now used to deliver patients

South West - now defunct, once emergency department completes its relocation, active pad will likely switch back to south pad.

Old Children's / West Calgary Health Centre (2)

Stabilized Patients
West - HMCS Tecumseh Parade Square

Non-Stabilized Patients
East - 'Temporary' landing site inside traffic onramp

New Children's Hospital


Rocky View
Rarely used


Peter Lougheed Centre

Public

Eau Claire

Four Pads, two fenced in. The two additional pads were leveled and cleared to reduce the amount of hovering in the run up to the 1988 Olympic games.

YYC Heliport

Defunct -

It was located to the east of the air terminal building, and requires passengers to
walk or be taxied across a vehicular parking area.

[Full Mountain]

There is a private one on the morrison homes building out on 42 St SE Between 110 Ave and 112 Ave... the Sat pics on google aren't recent enough to show it though

[MalcolmTucker]

Originally Posted by Full Mountain

There is a private one on the morrison homes building out on 42 St SE Between 110 Ave and 112 Ave... the Sat pics on google aren't recent enough to show it though

Live Maps Birds Eye View has it:

[Vascilli]

Hmm, I wouldn't mind using the CFCN one for my personal use. That would be quite a commute.

Morrison homes, assuming it's the Morrison that's the last half of Shane & Morrison, then I would know that Morrison's youngest daughter. She's in my grade, went to school with her for 4 years. Nice girl, kind of weird but what girl isn't? What on earth would Morrison need a helipad for? Spying on his construction workers?

[Full Mountain]

Morrison Has an R44 that the must use for shuttling execs around or at least that would be my guess

[Vascilli]

I bet they're not using it much any longer. Maybe I can get it used.

[YYCguys]

A little off topic, but I am so surprised that the residents of Promminence Pointe would not have squawked when Broadcast House (aka CTV Calgary) was planned to be built in the middle of their upper class neighborhood!!! What a lot of additional traffic and noise! Wouldn't it have been better to locate it elsewhere away from residential neighborhood? And how could the CPC have even allowed the zoning? And a heliport too?

[mersar]

Originally Posted by YYCguys

A little off topic, but I am so surprised that the residents of Promminence Pointe would not have squawked when Broadcast House (aka CTV Calgary) was planned to be built in the middle of their upper class neighborhood!!! What a lot of additional traffic and noise! Wouldn't it have been better to locate it elsewhere away from residential neighborhood? And how could the CPC have even allowed the zoning? And a heliport too?

From what I recall of the history of that site, CFCN has had some presence there since around their launch in 1960, so I'd imagine they probably predate most of the residential community around them since the area wasn't really developed until the 1980's (see the 'Patterson Heights (Strathcona Cell "A") Revised Concept Plan' which has a note of pretty much "its here and it isnt going anywhere" in it) and prior to development was mostly acreages with a few of the larger homes on them.

[You Need A Thneed]

The one at Peter Lougheed Hospital will be on the roof of the new wing when it opens up. The existing one will be removed, as the parkade is getting expanded into that area.

[Bigtime]

I loved the old Children's Hospital pad in the middle of the interchange. I was driving on that once as STAR's came ripping in out of nowhere! Pretty sweet sight for an aviation buff.

[MalcolmTucker]

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

The one at Peter Lougheed Hospital will be on the roof of the new wing when it opens up. The existing one will be removed, as the parkade is getting expanded into that area.

Wonder if the pad can be moved until the new emergency room opens? The Stelmach Conservatives have said they are leaving that part of the new wing unfinished for now.

[korzym]

...a real easy one is the helicopter company thats directly north of the air museum. Actually detached from the main runway land by a road and adjacent buildings.

This thread is fresh, I like it.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by korzym

...a real easy one is the helicopter company thats directly north of the air museum. Actually detached from the main runway land by a road and adjacent buildings.

This thread is fresh, I like it.

I would say that is the only true heli-pad at YYC, the rest are just the ramp areas in front of FBO's like Shell, Esso, and Air Sprint.

[korzym]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I would say that is the only true heli-pad at YYC, the rest are just the ramp areas in front of FBO's like Shell, Esso, and Air Sprint.

True, and you can add the HAWCs hangar to your list, which is next to SAIT's campus?

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by korzym

True, and you can add the HAWCs hangar to your list, which is next to SAIT's campus?

I believe that HAWC's is based out of the Air Sprint hangar, sharing the space with them, this is the new hangar just west of the SAIT campus.

[mmmbeer12]

The heliport at morrison homes is used by Al Morrison(owner of morrison homes) to commute to work some days from his house.

[Full Mountain]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I believe that HAWC's is based out of the Air Sprint hangar, sharing the space with them, this is the new hangar just west of the SAIT campus.

Air Sprint is about 2/3 of the building HAWC's is the other part, there is basically no interaction between the two groups on a regular basis or at least that's the way it was when I worked for Sprint 2.5 years ago

[Full Mountain]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I would say that is the only true heli-pad at YYC, the rest are just the ramp areas in front of FBO's like Shell, Esso, and Air Sprint.

Eagle/Alpine Helicopters....not sure if that is an actual helipad or just a area to land craft for repairs...since the only use for it is to bring heli's in for repair

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Full Mountain

Air Sprint is about 2/3 of the building HAWC's is the other part, there is basically no interaction between the two groups on a regular basis or at least that's the way it was when I worked for Sprint 2.5 years ago

I've never had a chance to check out the new hangar, thanks for the info. If you don't mind me asking what did you do when you worked for Air Sprint? I have a couple of old flying buddies that are still flying over there.

Originally Posted by Full Mountain

Eagle/Alpine Helicopters....not sure if that is an actual helipad or just a area to land craft for repairs...since the only use for it is to bring heli's in for repair

I was thinking the same thing, not an official heli-pad really, just for Eagle/Alpine's use exclusively it appears for maintenance and their operation. I also like the runup area directly east of it.

[Full Mountain]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I've never had a chance to check out the new hangar, thanks for the info. If you don't mind me asking what did you do when you worked for Air Sprint? I have a couple of old flying buddies that are still flying over there.

It was my first job after completing Aircraft Maintenance Tech at SAIT so I was basically a glorified ramp rat...until they decided they didn't like me and fired me oh they're loss not mine