Airports · Arkansas · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Sparks Medical Center Van Buren Heliport

AR87 · Van Buren, Arkansas · Crawford County · map

Sparks Medical Center Van Buren Heliport is a private heliport, 1 mile east of Van Buren, Arkansas, 467 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 30 by 30 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA AR87
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 467 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
On the chart: Memphis sectional
Magnetic variation: 5E
In the FAA's files since: November 1990

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	30 × 30 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Van Buren from the FAA register

10 aircraft are registered to owners in Van Buren, Arkansas: 7 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Arkansas.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Fort Smith Regional FSM · 6 nm south Sallisaw Municipal JSV · 23 nm west Ozark/Franklin County 7M5 · 25 nm east Stilwell / Cherokee Nation Airport 1PP · 25 nm northwest Robert S Kerr Airport RKR · 28 nm southwest Booneville Municipal 4M2 · 29 nm southeast Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Heliport AR21 · 5 nm south · private Sparks Regional Medical Center Heliport AR40 · 5 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided helipad size increased to 70 feet by 70 feet; light poles and wires on north and south ends are removed.
Medical.
J.C. bailey

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.