Shelby Medical Center Heliport
AL39 · Alabaster, Alabama · Shelby County · map
Shelby Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Shelby Medical Center in Alabaster, Alabama, 510 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 AL39
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Shelby Medical Center
- Elevation
- 510 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1982
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: Shelby County (5 nm south), Bessemer Ntl Airport (7 nm northwest), Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (19 nm north), Chilton County (26 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Shelby County (5 nm south), Bessemer Ntl Airport (7 nm northwest), Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (19 nm north), Chilton County (26 nm southeast).
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
- Provided pvt use; area is marked; wind indicator maintained; approach/departure from 220 clockwise to 320.
- Medical.
- Administrator.
- 30' trees 200' east; 20' tower 250' west.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Alabaster from the FAA register
18 aircraft are registered to owners in Alabaster, Alabama: 13 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 1 glider. 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
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Hka Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Hoover, 8 miles away
- Slipstream Aviation LLC 9 aircraft · Calera, 10 miles away Slipstream Aviation is a Part 61 flight school based at West Georgia Regional Airport in Carrollton, Georgia.
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 Alabaster 18 aircraft · 13 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 1 turboprops
- Breaking Wind LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Southern Latitude LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Hka Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Slipstream Aviation LLC 9 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 4,348 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AL39.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 29, 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.