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In 1968, the unit received its first turbine-powered helicopter, the Bell 206A JetRanger, which significantly decreased police response times. With a major expansion in 1974, the Helicopter Unit was renamed the Air Support Division. At that time, the ASD grew to fifteen helicopters and one Cessna 210 crewed by 77 sworn personnel. In 1976, the ...
Hooper Heliport is located on the roof of the C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, the world's largest rooftop airport. It is centrally located next to Los Angeles Union Station. It is home to the Los Angeles Police Department's Air Support Division which is the largest metropolitan police aviation unit in the U.S. with 16 helicopters.
Two months after an audit raised questions about the LAPD's helicopter program, the agency defended its nearly round-the-clock flights above the city.
The closed airport was then used as a private heliport for the Los Angeles Police Department's fleet of police helicopters, some Bell 47s ("recips") and some Bell 206s ("Jet Rangers"), until the new LAPD Hooper Heliport opened on top of the Piper Tech Building in downtown Los Angeles in 1983.
Two officers sustained minor injuries after a helicopter training session ended in an emergency landing around 1 p.m. Tuesday in the 4000 block of Doolittle Avenue in Los Alamitos.
A civilian panel rules the officers' action was justified, even as its account throws the role of LAPD helicopters under new scrutiny. A man with a knife was shot by police. Then an LAPD ...
In May 2017, a D Platoon officer shot and killed an armed suspect in Sunland-Tujunga from an LAPD Air Support Division helicopter. The helicopter was deployed after it was determined the suspect, who broke into a house and armed himself with the homeowner's gun, held a position that was too advantageous over officers on the ground. [40]
Two groups studying the effects of helicopters on the health of county residents are suing the L.A. County Sheriff's Department over records on its chopper fleet.