The word 'heliport' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a designated landing area for helicopters. Example: The hotel had its own private heliport, making it easier for guests to arrive and depart by helicopter.
In recent months, the authority has proposed a floating hotel and a heliport for VVIPs in south Mumbai and is looking for other ways to monetise parts of its £7.7bn property.
In a further sign that some new London developments are not meeting affordability targets, Barratt Homes has this month submitted an application to build a 28-storey tower of 135 apartments close to Battersea heliport of which just 14 of which are classed as "affordable".
(Aberdeen boasts the world's busiest civilian heliport, thanks to all the offshore traffic).
Instead, it proposed that the heliport be built on land near Henoko, where America's Camp Schwab now sits.
A new floating heliport, controversial but less so than Futenma, is to be built for the marines over a coral reef off Okinawa's less populated eastern coast.In addition, an American naval air wing now based at Atsugi, just outside Tokyo, will move to Iwakuni, 725 kilometres (450 miles) to the south-west, near Hiroshima; a dozen refuelling aircraft from Futenma will also go to Iwakuni.
Mr Hatoyama insisted on reopening the agreement locals objected to building a new heliport on an unspoilt shore while offering no reasonable alternative.
But first, an alternative had to be found.In this section A race against winter The inland ocean Faintly Declining Investment Hope is fragile but still alive No home where the dugong roam ReprintsAmerica proposed building a floating heliport 1.5 miles (2.5km) long over the coral reef at Henoko, on Okinawa's eastern side.
For a start, the governor, Keiichi Inamine, a proud man, has blessed the offshore heliport scheme and appears unwilling to lose face.
In Guatemala, Pentecostals have built what may be the largest building in Central America: Mega Frater (Big Brother) packs a 12,000-seater church, a vast baptism pool and a heliport.
Nor are the latest published results of the group, whose businesses include tax-free concessions at British airports, a shoe retailer, a heliport and an estate agency in addition to the department store.
Eight thousand marines are due to leave Okinawa for Guam, an American dependency, by 2014, leaving the heliport a lightly-manned forward base for emergency response.
