VA Medical Center Heliport
58IS · Marion, Illinois · Williamson County · map
VA Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Veterans Admin Medical Center, 1 mile northeast of Marion, Illinois, 464 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 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 58IS
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Veterans Admin Medical Center
- Elevation
- 464 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, on call
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1988
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Concrete, good | 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: Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (3 nm northwest), Southern Illinois Airport (14 nm west), Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport (20 nm east), Mount Vernon Airport (36 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (3 nm northwest), Southern Illinois Airport (14 nm west), Benton Municipal (17 nm north), Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport (20 nm east).
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
- Provide app/departure operations are from 180 degrees and/or 270 degrees; area is marked; wind indicator is maintained.
- Medical use.
- Chief Marion vamc police
- Ext 54505
- Approach and departure is from southwest only.
- Perimeter lights.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Marion from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Marion, Illinois: 9 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 helicopters, 2 drones, 1 business jet. 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 Illinois.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Charter operators and airlines based in Marion:
- Southern Illinois Helicopters LLC 1 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 Marion 16 aircraft · 9 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 helicopters
- Southern Illinois Helicopters LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Southern Fs INC 2 aircraft in town
- Southern Illinois Helicopters LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- 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 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/58IS.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 29, 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.