West 30th Street Heliport


The West 30th Street Heliport is a heliport on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The original heliport opened with two landing pads on September 26, 1956 and in December New York Airways began scheduled passenger flights, the first airline flights to Manhattan. It is owned by the Hudson River Park Trust and operated by Abigail Trenk and Brian Tolbert.

Operations

KJRA has one published Instrument Procedures: COPTER RNAV 210. Boating traffic in the Hudson River requires care in the approach to the heliport's landing pad.
Tourist flights out of the 30th Street Heliport are scheduled to move to Downtown Manhattan Heliport on March 31, 2010 and the heliport itself is scheduled to relocate by on December 31, 2012 as a result of a court agreement between helicopter operators and Friends of Hudson River Park who took action to enforce the Hudson River Park Act which banned tourism flights from that location.

Airlines

Charter

Statistics

73% of the flights are air taxi, 16% general aviation, 10% commercial, and less than 1% military.

Accidents and incidents