Virginia Beach Municipal Heliport
56VA · Virginia Beach, Virginia · Virginia Beach County · map
Virginia Beach Municipal Heliport is a private heliport owned by the City of Va Beach in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 12 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 250 by 250 feet of grass.
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 56VA
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Va Beach
- Elevation
- 12 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1986
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 250 × 250 ft | Grass |
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: Norfolk International (12 nm northwest), Chesapeake Regional (14 nm west), Hampton Roads Executive (20 nm west), Currituck County Regional (21 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Norfolk International (12 nm northwest), Chesapeake Regional (14 nm west), Hampton Roads Executive (20 nm west), Currituck County Regional (21 nm south).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided proponent enters into a letter of agreement with nas oceana;users made aware of obstruction east of pad.
- Prior permission, certificate of insurance required.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Virginia Beach from the FAA register
325 aircraft are registered to owners in Virginia Beach, Virginia: 231 piston singles, 44 piston twins, 16 business jets, 11 turboprops, 11 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 Virginia.
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:
- Teterboro School of Aeronautics INC 5 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 2 miles away
- Aviation Institute of Maintenance 2 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 2 miles away
- Air Pirates Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 2 miles away The Tidewater Flying Club is a non-profit flying club founded in 1967, based at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport (KPHF) in Newport News, Virginia.
Charter operators and airlines based in Virginia Beach:
- International Jet Charter, Inc. 7 aircraft on the certificate
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 Virginia Beach 325 aircraft · 231 piston singles, 44 piston twins, 16 business jets
- Tsi Holdco INC 80 aircraft in town
- Technical Education Services INC 25 aircraft in town
- Technical Education Services INC T/A 7 aircraft in town
- Military Aviation Museum 7 aircraft in town
- International Jet Charter, Inc. 7 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Teterboro School of Aeronautics INC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Aviation Institute of Maintenance 2 aircraft · flight school
- Air Pirates Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 228 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/56VA.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 November 10, 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.