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LAPD Hooper Heliport

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Airport type
  
Private

H1
  
205

62
  
Concrete

Owner
  
Los Angeles

Elevation AMSL
  
302 ft / 92 m

205
  
62

Elevation
  
92 m

LAPD Hooper Heliport

Location
  
Los Angeles, California

Address
  
Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA

Similar
  
LAPD Air Support Division, Los Angeles City Clerk, Transam Center, Federal Reserve Bank ‑ Lo, General Services Departme

LAPD Hooper Heliport (FAA LID: 4CA0) is a city-owned private-use heliport located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Hooper Heliport is located on the roof of the Piper Technical Center, the world's largest rooftop airport. It is centrally located between Los Angeles Union Station, Chinatown, and Downtown. It is home to the Los Angeles Police Department's Air Support Division which is the largest police aviation unit in America with 19 helicopters.

The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for some of the LAPD's motor pool including marked and un-marked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.

Hooper Heliport served as home base for the fictional police helicopter Blue Thunder in the 1983 motion picture of the same name, while construction of the heliport was still being completed.

References

LAPD Hooper Heliport Wikipedia