Punxsutawney Area Hospital Heliport
1PS8 · Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania · Jefferson County · map
Punxsutawney Area Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Punxsutawney Area Hospital, INC., 2 miles southeast of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 1,517 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 60 by 60 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 1PS8
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Punxsutawney Area Hospital, INC.
- Elevation
- 1,517 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1986
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 60 × 60 ft | Concrete, fair |
Radio frequencies
| Dubois and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.725 |
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: Dubois Regional (14 nm north), Indiana County/Jimmy Stewart Field (20 nm south), Clarion County (25 nm northwest), Clearfield-Lawrence Airport (27 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Punxsutawney Municipal (3 nm east), Dubois Regional (14 nm north), Indiana County/Jimmy Stewart Field (20 nm south), Clarion County (25 nm northwest).
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 Pennsylvania · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided wind indicator is installed; ingress/egress from the south and southwest.
- Medical use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Punxsutawney from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania: 11 piston singles, 2 piston twins. 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 Pennsylvania.
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:
- 4873G Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Punxsutawney, 4 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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Punxsutawney 13 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 2 piston twins
- Stratus Air Services LLC 2 aircraft in town
- N737Jj Aviation INC 2 aircraft in town
- Eastern Aeroworks LLC 2 aircraft in town
- 4873G Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Pennsylvania 1,834 since 1982 · 234 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Pennsylvania 118 landing places
- Pennsylvania 6,181 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/1PS8.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 27, 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.