Osf Saint Katharine Medical Center Heliport
49IS · Dixon, Illinois · Lee County · map
Osf Saint Katharine Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Osf Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon, Illinois, 736 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 42 by 40 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 49IS
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Osf Saint Katharine Medical Center
- Elevation
- 736 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1987
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 42 × 40 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
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: Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (11 nm southwest), Rochelle Muni/Koritz Field (18 nm east), Albertus Airport (25 nm north), Chicago/Rockford International (27 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Dixon Muni-Charles R Walgreen Field (2 nm southeast), Whiteside County/Jos H Bittorf Field (11 nm southwest), Rochelle Muni/Koritz Field (18 nm east), Albertus Airport (25 nm north).
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 Illinois · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Providing all approach/departure routes 260-280 degreess and 190-210 degreess; takeoff/landing area appropriately marked; NON-OBSTRUCTING wind indicator maintained.
- 24 hours
- Rooftop
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Dixon from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Dixon, Illinois: 5 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Illinois.
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:
- Rock River Flyers 1 aircraft · Mount Morris, 14 miles away Rock River Flyers, Inc.
Repair stations in Dixon:
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 Dixon 5 aircraft · 5 piston singles
- Rock River Flyers 1 aircraft · flight school
- Donaldson Company INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/49IS.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 28, 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.