UBLIC HEARING: Director of Development ... - City of Glendale

Glendale Redevelopment Agency
Glenndale Heliport
for the years 1974 through 1992 was the data that was most
readily available either through documentation or through
interviews with personnel who were familiar with the flight
operations. 1
Flight data for the past 18 years (1974-1992) was gathered
through extensive interviews with representative of the
airborne police departments who were knowledgeable about the
daily operations schedule. Information was obtained on the
number of aircraft in use, the hours of operations and the
number of operations and scheduled shifts. The original
number of flight operations combined both a takeoff and
landing event into one operation. For this report, the
number of operations was doubled (or, multiplied by "2") in
order to determine the number of flight events (see Tables 1,
2 and 3).
The type of aircraft ranged from single engine, piston driven
rotorcraft such as a Bell 47 to twin engine, twin rotor
military model aircratt such as a CH46. During the peak
years of operation (1974 to 1983), the LAPD used seven (7)
Bell 47G5 piston helicoptersi one Bell 47G5Ai one Bell
47G3Bli 16 Bell 206B single engine turbine models; one (1)
UH1B (Bell 204); and on an infrequent basis, a CH46. At the
site, Glendale and Burbank shared three (3) Hughes 300 piston
model aircraft from 1972 to 1992.
Tables 1,2, and 3 provides a summary of the number of
aircraft by shift segregated by weekend and weekday. As can
he seen in the three tables, the flights for the LAPD
occurred 24 hours a day over 7 days a week, except for
weekends. In addition to the three regularly scheduled
patrols (Patrol Day, PM and AM) with varied shifts, there
were surveillance flights along with maintenance and training
flights. As might be expected, there were less flights on
the weekend than during the week.
A more detailed review of the Tables reveals there were
approximately 94 flight events (a landing or a takeoff) per
24 hour period during the week. The number of flights
decreased on a weekend day to 58 takeoffs or landings. A
total of 586 flights occurred per week just from the LAPD
1
Interviews with Officer/Pilot Charles perriquey and
Sergeant/Pilot Dick Eyster, LAPDi captain Ron Allison,
and Senior pilot John Parmann, Glendale Police Dept.
3