Southern Virginia Medical Center Heliport
73VA · Emporia, Virginia · Greensville County · map
Southern Virginia Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Bon Secour Mercy Health Emporia LLC in Emporia, Virginia, 130 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 70 by 70 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 73VA
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Bon Secour Mercy Health Emporia LLC
- Elevation
- 130 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1987
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 70 × 70 ft | Concrete |
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: Emporia-Greensville Regional (3 nm east), Halifax/Northampton Regional (23 nm south), Mecklenburg-Brunswick Regional (25 nm west), Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (29 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Emporia-Greensville Regional (3 nm east), Halifax/Northampton Regional (23 nm south), Mecklenburg-Brunswick Regional (25 nm west), Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County (29 nm north).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Guy wires to the east are marked and lighted; ingress/egress routes are lighted.
- Medical use
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Emporia from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Emporia, Virginia: 4 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Virginia.
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 Emporia 4 aircraft · 4 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 229 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,975 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/73VA.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 28, 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.