Northern Navajo Medical Center Heliport
96NM · Shiprock, New Mexico · San Juan County · map
Northern Navajo Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Northern Navajo Medical Center, 1 mile south of Shiprock, New Mexico, 5,050 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 30 by 30 feet of conc-trtd.
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 96NM
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Northern Navajo Medical Center
- Elevation
- 5,050 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- April 2025
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 30 × 30 ft | Conc-trtd, excellent | Perimeter lights |
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: Four Corners Regional (22 nm east), Cortez Municipal (30 nm north), Durango-La Plata County (50 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Four Corners Regional (22 nm east), Cortez Municipal (30 nm north), Aztec Municipal (32 nm east), Animas Air Park Airport (46 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 New Mexico · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Reference ID: 2023-CSA-421-LAP; nra case asn: 2024-ASW-61-NRA
- Primary ingress 325 primary egress 325 secondary ingress 245 secondary egress 245 HELI//VTOL weight (pounds) 10000 tlof length 30 tlof width 30 fato length 45 fato width 45 safety area length 10 safety area width 10
- Oper type IFR_VFR oper avblty day_night
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Shiprock from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Shiprock, NM as the owner's town.
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.
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in New Mexico 1,422 since 1982 · 183 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 5 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Mexico 65 landing places
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/96NM.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.