Lewis Gale Clinic INC Heliport
1VA2 · Salem, Virginia · Roanoke County · map
Lewis Gale Clinic INC Heliport is a private heliport owned by Lewis Gale Hospital in Salem, Virginia, 1,070 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of asphalt.
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 1VA2
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Lewis Gale Hospital
- Elevation
- 1,070 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1970
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Asphalt | Perimeter lights |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (5 nm northeast), Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive (19 nm west), New River Valley Airport (32 nm west), Blue Ridge Airport (38 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (5 nm northeast), Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive (19 nm west), Smith Mountain Lake Airport (23 nm southeast), New River Valley Airport (32 nm west).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical use.
- To serve hosp in connection with emergency cases only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Salem from the FAA register
53 aircraft are registered to owners in Salem, Virginia: 26 piston singles, 17 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 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 Virginia.
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:
- Acorn Flying Club of Roanoke LLC 1 aircraft · Roanoke, 5 miles away
- Roanoke Valley Flying Club 1 aircraft · Roanoke, 5 miles away
- Smith Mountain Lake Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Hardy, 14 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Salem:
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. 6 aircraft on the certificate Summit Helicopters is a full-service helicopter operator and maintenance facility based in Salem, Virginia, offering aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul, avionics installation, and aerial operations including firefighting, aerial applica
Repair stations in Salem:
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 Salem 53 aircraft · 26 piston singles, 17 helicopters, 3 business jets
- Summit Helicopters INC 15 aircraft in town
- Mountain Aviation LLC 7 aircraft in town
- Kane Aviation LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Summit Sales & Leasing INC 2 aircraft in town
- Summit Helicopters, Inc. 6 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Acorn Flying Club of Roanoke LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Roanoke Valley Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Smith Mountain Lake Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Summit Helicopters INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 228 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/1VA2.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.