This advisory circular (AC) provides standards for the design of heliports serving helicopters with single rotors. Basic concepts to facilities serving helicopters with tandem (front and rear) or dual (side-by-side) rotors apply; however, many standards will not apply.

ACRP Synthesis 74 documents practices in safely accommodating mixed-use aeronautical activity at airports. Mixed-use aeronautical activity refers to the different categories of aircraft a public-use airport is intended to accommodate in compliance with FAA sponsor assurances. These categories include gliders, helicopters, ultralight vehicles, balloons, airships, blimps, skydiving, aerial applications for agriculture and firefighting, banner towing, aerobatic practice, and similar flight operations.

This manual provides standardized airfield, heliport, and airspace criteria for the geometric layout, design, and construction of runways, helipads, taxiways, aprons, landing zones (LZs), short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) facilities, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) facilities, and related permanent facilities to meet sustained operations for U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airfields.

Engineering Brief (EB) 87 specifies the design requirements for raised and semi-flush heliport perimeter lights. The new light fixture photometric standard is based on testing and pilot surveys performed by the Federal Aviation Administration Airport Safety Technology Research and Development at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey.