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

Viera Hospital Heliport

8FA7 · Melbourne, Florida · Brevard County · map

Viera Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Health First Inc/ Viera Hospital, 3 miles west of Melbourne, Florida, 29 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 44 by 44 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 8FA7
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Health First Inc/ Viera Hospital
Elevation: 29 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
On the chart: Jacksonville sectional
In the FAA's files since: March 2011

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	44 × 44 ft	Concrete, good	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Melbourne from the FAA register

323 aircraft are registered to owners in Melbourne, Florida: 195 piston singles, 54 helicopters, 29 piston twins, 23 business jets, 16 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:

Florida Institute of Technology 40 Melbourne Flight Training LLC 34 US Department of State 22 US Department of State Inl/A 19 Embraer Executive Aircraft INC 16 Florida Institute of Technology INC 10 Wings of Grace Ministries INC 8 US Dept of State Inl/A 5 United States Department of State 5 U S Department of State Inl/A 5

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

Merritt Island Airport COI · 7 nm north Melbourne Orlando International MLB · 9 nm southeast Valkaria Airport X59 · 18 nm southeast Space Coast Regional TIX · 18 nm north Arthur Dunn Air Park Airport X21 · 24 nm north Sebastian Municipal X26 · 28 nm southeast St. Cloud 3FL · 29 nm west Orlando Health Emergency Room Viera Heliport 73FL · 2 nm north · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided all helicopter approach/departure rte operations conducted from 265 to 275 degrees and from 085 to 095 degrees clkws; VFR operations and pvt use only; takeoff/landing area marked.
Activate beacon - 122.825.
Activate peri H1 - 122.825.

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.