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 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
- 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 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Alabama.
Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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 5, 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.