John S Dunn Heliport
38TE · Houston, Texas · Harris County · map
John S Dunn Heliport is a private heliport owned by Meml Hermann Hospital - Life Flight, 3 miles south of Houston, Texas, 303 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 150 by 120 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 38TE
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Meml Hermann Hospital - Life Flight
- Elevation
- 303 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1974
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 150 × 120 ft | Concrete, good | Low-intensity lights |
Aircraft registered in Houston from the FAA register
1,185 aircraft are registered to owners in Houston, Texas: 618 piston singles, 269 business jets, 77 piston twins, 73 turboprops, 73 helicopters. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR conditions.
- Medical.
- Frequency 128.850 available at heliport.
- Director of operations
- Hospital logo on helipad.
- Buildings in vicinity; best approach is from the north.
- Gross weight: 22000 pounds.
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Houston 1,185 aircraft · 618 piston singles, 269 business jets, 77 piston twins
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration 41 aircraft in town
- Comanche Warbirds INC 19 aircraft in town
- Lone Star Flight Museum 17 aircraft in town
- Comanche Maverick Air LLC 16 aircraft in town
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this heliport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,068 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 392 landing places
- Texas 29,858 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/38TE.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 8, 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.