Metro Heli-Pad Heliport
0TA5 · Houston, Texas · Harris County · map
Metro Heli-Pad Heliport is a private heliport owned by Galin Corporation, 4 miles east of Houston, Texas, 57 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 200 by 150 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0TA5
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Galin Corporation
- Elevation
- 57 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1980
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 200 × 150 ft | Grass |
- Runway H1: right-hand traffic pattern, power lines 40 ft high 20 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Houston from the FAA register
1,185 aircraft are registered to owners in Houston, Texas: 618 piston singles, 269 business jets, 77 piston twins, 73 turboprops, 73 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided ingress/egress routes are established to the east of pad.
- Power lines run from north to south.
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Houston 1,185 aircraft · 618 piston singles, 269 business jets, 77 piston twins
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration 41 aircraft in town
- Comanche Warbirds INC 19 aircraft in town
- Lone Star Flight Museum 17 aircraft in town
- Comanche Maverick Air LLC 16 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,068 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 392 landing places
- Texas 29,858 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/0TA5.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 8, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.