St. Mary'S Good Samaritan Heliport
4IL6 · Mt. Vernon, Illinois · Jefferson County · map
St. Mary'S Good Samaritan Heliport is a private heliport owned by St. Mary'S Good Samaritan INC., 2 miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, 501 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 48 by 48 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 4IL6
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- St. Mary'S Good Samaritan INC.
- Elevation
- 501 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- March 2013
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 48 × 48 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: Mount Vernon Airport (4 nm northeast), Centralia Municipal (15 nm northwest), Fairfield Municipal (25 nm east), Flora Municipal (32 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Mount Vernon Airport (4 nm northeast), Centralia Municipal (15 nm northwest), Benton Municipal (17 nm south), Salem-Leckrone Airport (21 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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only.
- 24 hours
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mt. Vernon from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mt. Vernon, IL as the owner's town.
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:
- Mt Vernon Airport Authority 3 aircraft · Mount Vernon, 5 miles away Mt Vernon Airport Authority operates Mt.
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
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 in the last ten years
- Mt Vernon Airport Authority 3 aircraft · flight school
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/4IL6.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.