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

South Boston Medical Heliport

5VA0 · South Boston, Virginia · Halifax County · map

South Boston Medical Heliport is a private heliport owned by the Town of South Boston in South Boston, Virginia, 460 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 5VA0
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
Owner: Town of South Boston
Elevation: 460 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Washington sectional
Magnetic variation: 9W
In the FAA's files since: November 1990

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

Radio frequencies

South Boston Center (remote transmitter) Low

124.05

Aircraft registered in South Boston from the FAA register

18 aircraft are registered to owners in South Boston, Virginia: 12 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 drones, 1 turboprop. 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:

South Central Land Management CO 2

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

William M Tuck Airport W78 · 3 nm east Lake Country Regional W63 · 18 nm southeast Chase City Municipal CXE · 20 nm east Danville Regional DAN · 22 nm southwest Raleigh Regional AT Person County TDF · 26 nm south Brookneal/Campbell County 0V4 · 26 nm north Whitfield Farms Airport 4W4 · 27 nm south Henderson/Oxford Airport HNZ · 28 nm southeast

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided VFR operations only; users briefed on close proximity to high speed, low altitude military training routes IR715, IR719 and VR1722.
Medical use.

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.