University Hospital Heliport
26KY · Louisville, Kentucky · Jefferson County · map
University Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by the University Medical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, 459 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 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 26KY
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- University Medical Center
- Elevation
- 459 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1977
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Concrete |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 123.075 |
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: Louisville Muhammad Ali International (4 nm south), Bowman Field (4 nm east), Clark Regional (7 nm north), Samuels Field (28 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Louisville Muhammad Ali International (4 nm south), Bowman Field (4 nm east), Clark Regional (7 nm north), Samuels Field (28 nm southeast).
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 Kentucky · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR, pvt use. Coord use west/louisville gado and coord communication procedures with chief, standiford field the control tower.
- Medical.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Louisville from the FAA register
628 aircraft are registered to owners in Louisville, Kentucky: 212 piston singles, 198 airliners and large jets, 130 business jets, 46 balloons, 19 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 Kentucky.
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:
- Flight Club 502 INC 12 aircraft · Louisville, 5 miles away
- Double Eagle Flyers LLC 3 aircraft · Louisville, 5 miles away Double Eagle Aviation is a Part 61 flight school offering flight instruction from Private Pilot to Certified Flight Instructor and Certified Flight Instructor Instrument levels.
- Bowman Field Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Louisville, 5 miles away Bowman Eagles Flying Club is a taildragger-only flying club based at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Feathered Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Louisville, 5 miles away
- Stratospheric Flyers Group INC 1 aircraft · Louisville, 5 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Louisville:
- Privateflite Aviation LLC 7 aircraft on the certificate Private FLITE Charters is a private jet charter broker that arranges on-demand charter flights worldwide through a network of approved aircraft operators.
- FliteAccess, LLC. 7 aircraft on the certificate FliteAccess is a charter operator based in Louisville, Kentucky, serving the Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati areas and beyond.
Repair stations in Louisville (12 of 13, all of them):
- Aerotech of Louisville, LLC. Aerotech of Louisville is an FAA-approved repair station specializing in the overhaul, repair, and distribution of aircraft charging and starting system accessories for general, corporate, and military aviation.
- Aircraft Component Services INC
- Aviation Services INC
- Aviation Technology INC
- Barfield INC
- Cargo Repair LLC
- Central American Airways Flying Service INC
- Cliff Cherry Machine CO. Cliff Cherry Machine is a Part 145 FAA-approved repair station in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in aircraft wheel and brake component repair.
- Goodrich Corporation Wheel and Brake Services
- Radiance Engineering LLC
- Satco INC
- T.T. Repairs, LLC.
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 Louisville 628 aircraft · 212 piston singles, 198 airliners and large jets, 130 business jets
- United Parcel Service CO 237 aircraft in town
- C C & e I LLC 50 aircraft in town
- Skycab Balloon Promotions INC 14 aircraft in town
- Flight Club 502 INC 11 aircraft in town
- Privateflite Aviation LLC 7 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- FliteAccess, LLC. 7 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Flight Club 502 INC 12 aircraft · flying club
- Double Eagle Flyers LLC 3 aircraft · flight school
- Bowman Field Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Aerotech of Louisville, LLC. · repair station
- Aircraft Component Services INC · repair station
- Aviation Services INC · repair station
- Aviation Technology INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Kentucky 702 since 1982 · 112 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Kentucky 60 landing places
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/26KY.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.
