ABOUT AIRSAFE
40 years, 300 heliport projects. We work nationwide.
Airsafe was founded 1983. The company is based in Oro Valley, Arizona and has an office in northwest Washington. Our focus is consultation and design of general aviation facilities. Most of Airsafe’s heliport projects involve emergency medical service heliports for fire districts and hospitals. Some heliport efforts are on behalf of private and corporate clients, including news organizations. Over 300 hospital heliport consultation or design projects have been completed.
“consultation and design of general aviation facilities.”
SERVICES OFFERED
Heliport Administrative Services
Comprehensive plan and zoning consultation
Conditional-use permit assistance
Impact mitigation through location and design
Code interpretation and consistency
HELIPORT DESIGN SERVICES
Evaluations of approach and departure pathways
Determinations of design helicopters that direct heliport sizes
Establishment of clear operating areas
Requirements of load-bearing surfaces
Recommendations for equipment including perimeter and floodlights, pilot-controlled lighting systems, lighted wind indicators, signs, weather-reporting systems and obstruction lights
Design of elevator vestibules and “gurneyways” that connect vestibules to heliports
Recommendations for fire suppression systems
Depiction of graphic markings
Heliport self-inspection checklists
Full drawing set and narrative basis-of-design reports
