Airports · Nebraska · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Heliport

17NE · Fairbury, Nebraska · Jefferson County · map

Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Heliport is a private heliport, 1 mile north of Fairbury, Nebraska, 1,433 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 17NE
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
Elevation: 1,433 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Omaha sectional
Magnetic variation: 7E
In the FAA's files since: July 1980

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	40 × 40 ft	Concrete

Runway H1: building 30 ft high 45 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Fairbury from the FAA register

15 aircraft are registered to owners in Fairbury, Nebraska: 12 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Nebraska.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Fairbury Municipal FBY · 2 nm north Hebron Municipal HJH · 19 nm west Beatrice Municipal BIE · 21 nm northeast Washington County Veteran'S Memorial K38 · 26 nm south Sutton Airport NE35 · 18 nm west · private Thomsen Airport NE92 · 24 nm east · private Feik Field NE94 · 24 nm north · private Folkerts Airport 9NE2 · 26 nm west · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided that approach/departure paths to the landing area are maintained for a minimum 8:1 glide slope and the transitional surface be maintained for a 2:1 slope.
Medical.
Northwest of landing pad.

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 5, 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.