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

Meritus Hospital Heliport

5MD3 · Hagerstown, Maryland · Washington County · map

Meritus Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Meritus Hospital, 2 miles southeast of Hagerstown, Maryland, 578 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 5MD3
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Meritus Hospital
Elevation: 578 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: around the clock
On the chart: Washington sectional
Magnetic variation: 11W
In the FAA's files since: December 2015

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	54 × 54 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Hagerstown from the FAA register

51 aircraft are registered to owners in Hagerstown, Maryland: 40 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 3 turboprops, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 drones. 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:

Hagerstown Aviation Museum INC 12Oneonone Flight Training LLC 3Creek Bound Farms LLC 2

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Hagerstown Rgnl/Richard A Henson Field HGR · 5 nm north Mid Atlantic Soaring Center Airport W73 · 17 nm northeast Eastern WV Rgnl/Shepherd Field MRB · 19 nm southwest Frederick Municipal FDK · 19 nm southeast Franklin County Regional N68 · 21 nm north Potomac Airpark W35 · 23 nm west Gettysburg Regional W05 · 23 nm northeast Laura'S Landing Airport 22MD · 3 nm southeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

All operations are conducted in VFR weather conditions; landing area is limited to pvt use; tkoff/landing area is appropriately marked; NON-OBSTRUCTING wind indicator is maintained adjacent to the tkoff/landing area.

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.