AGENCY HELICOPTER SERVICE WITHIN THE WASHINGTON AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 1, 1962
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MEMORANDUM FOR. Deputy Director (Support)
Agency Helicopter Service Within the Washington
Area
Memo to DDS from D/L dated 18 Oct 1961, same
subject
1. This memorandum is for information only. It describes
helicopter utilization requirements as estimated by each deputy
director in two categories:
a. Man-trips per week from the new headquarters building
if helicopter service is made available to all personnel from
supergrades through branch chief level (approximately GS-JA).
(Attachments 1 and 2)
b. Man-trips per week from the new headquarters. building
if helicopter service is made available only to personnel of
the immediate office of each deputy director. (Attachment 3)
2. The requirements category in paragraph l.a. above totals
566 man-trips per forty-hour work week. Utilizing commercial air-
craft, these requirements can be satisfied for an estimated annual
cost of $1,0+0,000. Military helicopters can provide the support
for an estimated *748,800 annually.
3. The requirements category in paragraph l.b. above totals
32 man-trips per forty-hour work week. Commercial helicopter
support will cost an estimated $137,280 annually. An estimated
$93,600 annually will provide military airlift. Attachment 4 is
an estimated cost breakdown.
4. Heliports are operational at the following locations and
can be made available for Agency use through prior arrangement with
each controlling organization:
Friendship International Airport, Baltimore, Maryland
Washington National Airport
Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland
The Pentagon
Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, Maryland
National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Maryland
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SUBJECT. Agency Helicopter Service Within the Washington
Area
Suitable space is available for construction of heliports
helicopter alrllll to these locations is cons ere essen i .
(Attachments 5 and 6)
6. No centrally located heliport is presently available in
the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia Government and
the National Capital Planning Commission will consider such a
location during March 1962. (Attachment 7)
Attachments.
1 thru 7 (As stated above)
rector of Logistics
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ESTIMATED IMSAN-TRIPS PER WEEK FROM LANGLEY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
BY DEPUTY DIRECTORATE AND DESTINATION WITH
HELICOPTER SERVICE FURNISHED TO BRANCH CHIEF LEVEL PERSONNEL
DD/P
DD/I
DD/S
Total by
Location
White House
1
8
9
Department of State
131
50
181
West Potomac Park
25
25
I
20
22
Miscellaneous D. C. Locations
65
30
4
99
Pentagon
I+5
30
1
76
National Airport
60
60
Atomic Energy Commission
(Germantown, Maryland)
5
5
Washington Depot
5
20
25
National Security Agency
(Ft. Meade, Maryland)
10
30
12
52
Total by Deputy Directorate
259 173
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MAN-TRIPS PER WEEK, MAN-TRIPS PER DAY AND HELICOPTER TRIPS PER DAY
FROM THE LANGLEY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING BY DESTINATION
(BRANCH CHIEF LEVEL PERSONNEL)
Within the District of Columbia
White House
Department of State
West Potomac Park
Helicopter
Man-Trips Man-Trips Round Trips
Per Week Per Day Per Day
181
25
2
37
5
22 5
99 20
336 69
Other than District of Columbia
Pentagon 76 16 2
National Airport 60 12 2
Atomic Energy Commission (Germantown) 5 1 2
Washington Depot 25 5 2
National Security Agency (Ft. Meade) 52 11 2
12 3 2
230 48
*One 10-passenger commercial (18-passenger military) helicopter would shuttle
between the Langley Headquarters Building and one centrally located heliport
within the District of Columbia.
**One 10-passenger commercial (18-passenger military) helicopter could accomplish.
A minimum of two helicopter trips are required per destination per day since each
deputy directorate has indicated personnel don't plan to remain overnight and
desire return helicopter transportation.
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ESTIMATED MAN-TRIPS PER WEEK FROM LANGLEY HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
BY DEPUTY DIRECTORATE AND DESTINATION WITH HELICOPTER
SERVICE LIMITED TO PERSONNEL OF THE IMMEDIATE
OFFICE OF EACH DEPUTY DIRECTOR
DD/P
DD/I
DD/S
Total by
Location
White House
1
2
3
Department of State
11
4
15
South Building
2
4
6
Pentagon
Total by Deputy Directorate
17
*One 2-passenger helicopter (civilian or military) can accomplish.
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E. GfET
ESTIMATED COST OF CO.~~_L HELICOPTER SERVICE FOR
SUPERGRADE THROUGH BRANCH CHIEF LEVEL PERSONNEL
Man-Trips
Type
Cost Per Hour
No. Aircraft
Cost Per
Annual
Per Week
Aircraft
Each Aircraft
Required
1+0-Hour Week
Cost
10-Passenger
266
Sikors~ S-62
$2 0
2
$20,000
1 040, 000
ESTIMATED COST OF MILITARY HELICOPTER SERVICE FOR
SUPERGRADE THROUGH BRANCH CHIEF LEVEL PERSONNEL
Man-Trips
Type
Cost Per Hour
No. Aircraft _
' - Cost Per
Annual
Per Week
Aircraft
Each Aircraft
Rewired
40-Hour Week
Cost
16-Passenger
-
-.266
Sikors ~IL-34-_ _
180
2
1 x+00
800
ESTIMATED COST OF C HELICOPTEEt SERVICE FOR
PERSONNEL OF THE IMt ATE OFFICE OF EACH DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Man-Trips
Type
Cost Per Hour
No. Aircraft
Cost Per -_ Annual
Per Week
Aircraft
Each Aircraft
Required
40-Hour Week Cost
2-Passenger
32
Bell H-l3-H
X 6 6
! 1
_ 2,640 280
ESTIMATED COST OF MIL HELICOPTER SERVICE FOR
PERSONNEL OF THE I2 I MICE OF EACH DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Man-Trips
Type
Cost Per Hour
No. Aircraft
Cost Per
Annual
Per Week
Aircraft
Each Aircraft
Re uired
40-Hour Week
Cost
2-Passenger
2
Bell H-1 -H
d+
1
1 800
600
*The Executive Helicopter Company has no 10-passenger aircraft available.
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1. Discussion with the Air Operations Controller, Staff of
the Naval Aide to the President, established that the White House
heliport is for the exclusive use of the President, including only
those individuals for whom the President dispatches his own heli-
copter.
2. A request to the Superintendent of the National Capital
Parks asking approval for establishing a heliport in West Potomac
Park (adjacent to Quarters Eye) resulted in an unequivocal refusal.
The superintendent stated that past experience with aircraft
operations in public parks has resulted in severe legal problems
relative to personnel injury.
3. On 23 January 1962, coordination with the Chief, Airspace
Utilization Division, Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) produced the
following information.
a. The Department of State has requested approval for con-
struction of a rooftop heliport at 23rd and D Streets, N. W.
(Copy of preliminary planning estimate attached)
b. The Federal Aviation Agency has requested approval for
construction of a rooftop heliport on Federal Building 10A.
The FAA presently occupies this building which is located on
Independence Avenue between Seventh and Eighth Streets.
c. Recently passed zoning laws prohibit establishment of
heliports within the District of Columbia. Pilgrim Helicopter
Services, Inc., received a franchise to operate at 26th and G
Streets, N. W., prior to adoption of the zoning law. This
company plans to move its operation to a rooftop heliport at
Wisconsin Avenue and K Street during calendar year 1962.
d. The Washington-Baltimore Helicopter Airways, Inc., is
operating temporarily from a space bounded by Eighth; Ninth,
D and E Streets, S. E. The company is forecast to lose this
operating location in the near future.
e. Six additional commercial companies have filed briefs
with the Federal Aviation Agency requesting helicopter routes
in the District of Columbia.
Attachment 7
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4+. The National Capital Planning Commission is not in favor
of granting operational clearances to any of the organizations listed
in paragraph 3. above. Instead, the Planning Commission has proposed
that only one location within the District of Columbia (the White
House excepted) be utilized for helicopter operation. The Planning
Commission has proposed that this heliport be located on a three and
one-half acre plot bounded by First Street, Canal Street, D Street,
S. W., and a railroad. Under this plan, the FAA would operate the
heliport for all users, military or civil. The District of Columbia
Government and the National Capital Planning Commission will consider
this proposal in a joint meeting tentatively scheduled for March 1962.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUILDING
HELICOPTER LANDING PLATFORM
PRELIM.IIJARY PLANNING
COST ESTIMATE
1.
Platform (100' x 425' plus 50' x 75') @$12.00
$ 624,000
2.
Elevator incl cut, patch structural etc.
35,000
3.
Personnel enclosure
15,000
4.
Fuel tank drainage, cripples.
15,000
5.
Special Roof drainage acct oils, & fuel drippage
50M @ $2.
100,000
6.
Derrick
7,500
7.
Tie Downs
2,500
8.
Lights, Special, General, Obstacle, Landing
25,000
9.
IFR Equipment
15,000
10.
Fire Fighting equipment
50,000
11.
Central & Misc. Equipment
50,000
12.
Fueling facilities
50,000
889, 000
13.
Design costs
89,000
14.
GSA costs
50,000
$1,028,000
DRAWINGS:
A-21-12, A-21-13, W-L-H-1, Harley Probst Associates. Jan 9, 1957.
SPECIFICATIONS
Facilities, as noted above, and in NAN Memo of 9/6/56.
Platform and framing, Steel, for aircraft of 50,000 gross weight including
pay load.
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