St. James Helistop
5FD9 · Cape Coral, Florida · Lee County · map
St. James Helistop is a private heliport owned by Lee CO Mosquito Control Dist, 5 miles northeast of Cape Coral, Florida, 6 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 54 by 54 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5FD9
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lee CO Mosquito Control Dist
- Elevation
- 6 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1988
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 54 × 54 ft | Concrete |
Aircraft registered in Cape Coral from the FAA register
111 aircraft are registered to owners in Cape Coral, Florida: 78 piston singles, 19 piston twins, 4 business jets, 3 helicopters, 2 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provide VFR/pvt use; and ingress/egress routes limited to an east/west direction.
- T. wayne gale
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.