Rangely District Hospital Heliport
18CO · Rangely, Colorado · Rio Blanco County · map
Rangely District Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Rangely Hospital District, 3 miles northeast of Rangely, Colorado, 5,335 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 84 by 84 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The heliport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 18CO
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Rangely Hospital District
- Elevation
- 5,335 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2002
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 84 × 84 ft | Concrete, good |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this heliport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Vernal Regional (39 nm northwest), Meeker Coulter Field (42 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Rangely Airport (2 nm northeast), Vernal Regional (39 nm northwest), Meeker Coulter Field (42 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Colorado · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical use.
- 100 feet power lines 300 ftn and west; 150 feet trees 225 feet south/southeast; 100 feet power lines 240 feet north/northeast of helipad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Rangely from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Rangely, Colorado: 21 piston singles, 1 piston twin. 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 Colorado.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Colorado Northwestern Community College 10 aircraft · Rangely, 3 miles away
Companies in the same town as this heliport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this heliport
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Rangely 22 aircraft · 21 piston singles, 1 piston twins
- Colorado Northwestern Community College 10 aircraft in town
- Colorado Northwestern Community College 10 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,857 since 1982 · 381 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 4 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/18CO.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.