Decatur Memorial Hospital Heliport
8IS6 · Decatur, Illinois · Macon County · map
Decatur Memorial Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Decatur Memorial Hospital, 5 miles southeast of Decatur, Illinois, 750 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 45 by 45 feet of mats.
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 8IS6
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Decatur Memorial Hospital
- Elevation
- 750 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1974
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 45 × 45 ft | Mats, good | Perimeter lights |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Decatur Airport (5 nm southeast), Taylorville Municipal (26 nm southwest), Shelby County (28 nm south), Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (33 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Decatur Airport (5 nm southeast), Logan County (25 nm northwest), Taylorville Municipal (26 nm southwest), Shelby County (28 nm south).
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 Illinois · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided approach/departure from 085 degrees to 095 degrees and from 265 to 275 degrees; area is marked; wind indicator is maintained; and comply with far part 91.126(B)(2).
- Medical use.
- Heliport used for emergency evacuation of patients via the trauma network of Illinois emergency medical services.
- And flood lights.
- Runway H1 is elevated rooftop steel deck.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Decatur from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in Decatur, Illinois: 20 piston singles, 6 turboprops, 1 drone. 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 Illinois.
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:
- Decatur Aero Club INC 3 aircraft · Decatur, 6 miles away
Repair stations in Decatur:
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 Decatur 27 aircraft · 20 piston singles, 6 turboprops, 1 drones
- Adams Aerial Solutions LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Decatur Aero Club INC 3 aircraft in town
- Decatur Aero Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- Midwest Avionics LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/8IS6.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.