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

Wesley Medical Center Heliport

8KS6 · Wichita, Kansas · Sedgwick County · map

Wesley Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas, 1,440 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 80 by 80 feet of concrete.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA 8KS6
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Wesley Medical Center
Elevation: 1,440 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights sunset to sunrise
On the chart: Wichita sectional
Magnetic variation: 7E
In the FAA's files since: October 1978

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	80 × 80 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Radio frequencies

UNICOM

123.05

Aircraft registered in Wichita from the FAA register

1,321 aircraft are registered to owners in Wichita, Kansas: 709 piston singles, 181 turboprops, 178 business jets, 134 gliders, 70 piston twins. 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:

Textron Aviation INC 344 Wingsleasing LLC 117 Kansas Aviation Museum 25 Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee 25 Textron Financial CORP 19 Elemental Aviation Lc 17 Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee 17 Textron Aviation Employees Flying Club INC 16 Eaglemed LLC 14 Airtrex Registration CORP Trustee 14

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Cessna Acft Field CEA · 4 nm southeast Beech Factory Airport BEC · 4 nm east Westport Airport 71K · 5 nm southwest Colonel James Jabara Airport AAO · 5 nm northeast Westport Auxiliary Airport 72K · 6 nm southwest Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport ICT · 7 nm southwest Cook Airfield K50 · 10 nm southeast Lloyd Stearman Field 1K1 · 10 nm northeast

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

Provided that approach/dept paths to the landing area are maintained for a minimum 8:1 glideslope and that the transitional surface be maintained for a minimum 2:1 slope.
Rooftop.

Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Wichita 1,321 aircraft · 709 piston singles, 181 turboprops, 178 business jets
Textron Aviation INC 344 aircraft in town
Wingsleasing LLC 117 aircraft in town
Kansas Aviation Museum 25 aircraft in town
Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee 25 aircraft in town

Record

Accidents and incidents in Kansas 1,146 since 1982 · 150 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Kansas 150 landing places
Kansas 5,752 aircraft registered

Live

Analytics

These connections as data: /graph/airport/8KS6.json · about the eFlight graph.

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 7, 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.