Shoals Hospital Heliport
AL53 · Muscle Shoals, Alabama · Colbert County · map
Shoals Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 500 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of pfc.
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 AL53
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Shoals Hospital
- Elevation
- 500 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, sunrise to sunset
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1990
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Pfc |
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: Northwest Alabama Regional (3 nm east), Bill Pugh Field (18 nm south), Posey Field (28 nm south), Lawrenceburg/Lawrence County (Fleeman Field) (36 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Northwest Alabama Regional (3 nm east), Courtland Airport (17 nm east), Bill Pugh Field (18 nm south), Segars Field (24 nm west).
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 operations are conducted from 250-360 degreess; area is marked; wdu is mntnd; letter of agreement with above sea level Flight Service.
- Medical use.
- 75 feet pwr line 600 feet west of pad; 30 feet light poles 50 feet north, east and west of pad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Muscle Shoals from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Muscle Shoals, Alabama: 10 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 3 piston twins, 1 turboprop. 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.
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 Muscle Shoals 21 aircraft · 10 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 3 piston twins
- Tennessee Valley Authority 8 aircraft in town
- 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 4,342 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AL53.json.
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 27, 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.