Bell Helicopter Heliport
89TN · Johnson City, Tennessee · Sullivan County · map
Bell Helicopter Heliport is a private heliport owned by Textron INC, 9 miles northeast of Johnson City, Tennessee, 1,580 feet above sea level. It has 6 landing pads. It has fuel (Jet A).
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 89TN
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Textron INC
- Elevation
- 1,580 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- Jet A; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- July 2009
Landing pads 6
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H6 | 60 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | |
| H1 | 48 × 20 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
| H2 | 48 × 20 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
| H3 | 48 × 20 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
| H4 | 48 × 20 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
| H5 | 48 × 20 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 123.075 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Tri-Cities Airport (6 nm northwest), William B Greene JR Regional (7 nm southeast), Virginia Highlands Airport (20 nm northeast), Johnson County (23 nm east).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Tri-Cities Airport (6 nm northwest), William B Greene JR Regional (7 nm southeast), Virginia Highlands Airport (20 nm northeast).
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 Tennessee · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only; takeoff/landing area marked; wind indicator maintained; all appch/departure rte helicopter operations conducted from 020 to 170 degrees clkws and from 200 to 350 degrees clkws using the touchdown pad as the cntr of a compass rose.
- RDO-CTL
- Activate all pad perimeter lights - the common traffic frequency. All lights nvg compatible.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Johnson City from the FAA register
63 aircraft are registered to owners in Johnson City, Tennessee: 49 piston singles, 6 business jets, 3 balloons, 2 gliders, 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:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Tennessee Flight Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Bristol, 10 miles away
- Big Sky Navigation & Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · Bristol, 15 miles away Big Sky Aviation is an FBO, flight school, and aircraft management service based at Millville Executive Airport in southern New Jersey.
Companies in the same town as this heliport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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 Johnson City 63 aircraft · 49 piston singles, 6 business jets, 3 balloons
- Skycrafters INC 2 aircraft in town
- Hairetown LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Tennessee Flight Academy LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Big Sky Navigation & Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Tennessee 1,198 since 1982 · 231 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Tennessee 76 landing places
- Tennessee 6,522 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/89TN.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 30, 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.