Airports · Arkansas · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Southwest Hospital Heliport

5AR6 · Little Rock, Arkansas · Pulaski County · map

Southwest Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Baptist Medical Center, 7 miles southwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, 344 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 5AR6
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Baptist Medical Center
Elevation: 344 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon see the remarks below
On the chart: Memphis sectional
Magnetic variation: 4E
In the FAA's files since: August 1988

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	40 × 40 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Little Rock from the FAA register

218 aircraft are registered to owners in Little Rock, Arkansas: 118 piston singles, 39 business jets, 23 drones, 14 piston twins, 11 turboprops. 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:

Wheeler Automated Aviation LLC 17Arkansas Childrens Hospital 4Windsock Management LLC 3Vector Disease Control International 3Whisair LLC 2Trl Aviation LLC 2Stephens Group LLC 2Ostrich Boot LLC 2N833Tx LLC 2Hatcher Aviation LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Arkansas.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Saline County Regional SUZ · 5 nm southwest Bill And Hillary Clinton Ntl/Adams Field LIT · 10 nm northeast North Little Rock Municipal ORK · 13 nm northeast Sheridan-Grant County Regional 9M8 · 20 nm south Conway Regional CXW · 23 nm north Malvern Municipal M78 · 26 nm southwest Smith'S International 99A · 27 nm southeast Little Rock Police Dept. Heliport 56AR · 5 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided propsed parking lot light stanchion is ltd to 20' and red obtruction lighted.
Medical.
42' building lighted 220' east; 25' trees 300' northeast; 20' building 340' southwest.

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 5, 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.