Bryant Culberson Heliport
AL26 · Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Tuscaloosa County · map
Bryant Culberson Heliport is a private heliport owned by Dch Regional Medical Center, 3 miles east of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 283 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 feet of concrete.
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 AL26
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Dch Regional Medical Center
- Elevation
- 283 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1979
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Concrete |
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: Tuscaloosa Ntl Airport (4 nm west), Bessemer Ntl Airport (31 nm east), Richard Arthur Field (33 nm northwest), Shelby County (37 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Tuscaloosa Ntl Airport (4 nm west), North Pickens Airport (26 nm northwest), Bessemer Ntl Airport (31 nm east), Greensboro Municipal (32 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 Alabama · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR pvt use; coord use of helicopter with bhm gado; 2-WAY radio coms estabd with tcl the control tower prior to entering/departing control zone/airport traffic area.
- Green, white and yellow. Rotating beacon schedule irregular
- Medical.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Tuscaloosa from the FAA register
76 aircraft are registered to owners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: 40 piston singles, 13 business jets, 6 piston twins, 5 helicopters, 5 drones. 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 Alabama.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Tuscaloosa, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
- Tcl FBO LLC Ascension FBO operates fixed-base operations at eleven airports across the United States, providing ground handling, line service, customer service, and related FBO services.
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Reform Friendly Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Buhl, 13 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Tuscaloosa:
- Harmony Air LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate
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 Tuscaloosa 76 aircraft · 40 piston singles, 13 business jets, 6 piston twins
- Peco Foods INC 3 aircraft in town
- Forag Aerial Solutions LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Taft Drone Services LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Phifer INC 2 aircraft in town
- Tcl FBO LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Harmony Air LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Reform Friendly Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Alabama 1,210 since 1982 · 172 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alabama 85 landing places
- Alabama 4,346 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AL26.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 28, 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.