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Dallas/Fort Worth Medical Center Heliport

56TA · Grand Prairie, Texas · Tarrant County · map

Dallas/Fort Worth Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by D/Fw Medical Center, 3 miles southwest of Grand Prairie, Texas, 578 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 60 by 60 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 56TA
Kind
Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
D/Fw Medical Center
Elevation
578 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Lights
runway lights see the remarks below
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
Magnetic variation
7E
In the FAA's files since
July 1982

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

H1N500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

PadLength × widthSurfaceLights
H160 × 60 ftAsphaltPerimeter 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: Grand Prairie Municipal (2 nm south), Arlington Municipal (5 nm southwest), Dallas Executive (10 nm east), Dallas-Fort Worth International (10 nm north).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Grand Prairie Municipal (2 nm south), Arlington Municipal (5 nm southwest), Dallas Executive (10 nm east), Dallas-Fort Worth International (10 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 Texas · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

  • Medical.
  • Chief operating officer.
  • Dallas/feet. Worth Medical Center.
  • Tower 25' from threshold; oxygen storage pad 25' from threshold.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Grand Prairie from the FAA register

165 aircraft are registered to owners in Grand Prairie, Texas: 81 helicopters, 71 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 4 balloons, 2 business jets. 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:

Airbus Helicopters INC 72Aviator Air Flight School LLC 10Careflite 7Six Ten Ventures LLC 5Aviator Air Operations LLC 4Nielson Curtis L 2N1622F LLC 2

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.

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:

  • Aviator Air Flight School LLC 10 aircraft · Grand Prairie, 2 miles away Aviator Academy of Texas is a flight school based at Mid-Way Regional Airport in Midlothian, Texas, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
  • Skymates INC 7 aircraft · Grand Prairie, 2 miles away Skymates Flight Academy is an FAA Part 141 flight school located in Grand Prairie, Texas, offering pilot training courses from private pilot through airline transport pilot level.
  • Dal Tex Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Arlington, 5 miles away Dal Tex Flyers Inc.
  • Gpm Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Colleyville, 12 miles away
  • Metro Flyers LTD 2 aircraft · N Richland Hills, 13 miles away Metro Flyers is a private flying club based at Denton Enterprise Airport (KDTO) in Denton, Texas.
  • Aurora Aviation Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Grapevine, 14 miles away
  • Mesquite Metro Flying Club 1 aircraft · Dallas, 14 miles away Metro Flyers Club is a private flying club based at Denton Enterprise Airport (KDTO) in Denton, Texas.

Charter operators and airlines based in Grand Prairie:

  • CareFlite 8 aircraft on the certificate CareFlite is a nonprofit air ambulance and ground ambulance service established in 1979 serving North Texas and South Oklahoma.

Repair stations in Grand Prairie (12 of 13, all of them):

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.

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/56TA.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 23, 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.