Airports · Colorado · heliport · FAA file effective October 29, 2026

Henderson Heliport

CO51 · Empire, Colorado · Clear Creek County · map

Henderson Heliport is a private heliport, 8 miles west of Empire, Colorado, 10,357 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 100 by 100 feet of asphalt.

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 CO51
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 10,357 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart: Denver sectional
Magnetic variation: 12E
In the FAA's files since: July 1973

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	100 × 100 ft	Asphalt

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: none reported
Repairs: none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Granby-Grand County (19 nm north), MC Elroy Airfield (29 nm northwest), Boulder Municipal (33 nm northeast), Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (35 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Granby-Grand County (19 nm north), MC Elroy Airfield (29 nm northwest), Boulder Municipal (33 nm northeast), Rocky Mountain Metro Airport (35 nm east).

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 Colorado · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

Record purposes only.
Ext 1341
Ctlg obstructions: lighted building west 600'. unlighted mountain slope south 1000',north and south of area.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Empire from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Empire, CO as the owner's town.

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

Granby-Grand County GNB · 19 nm north MC Elroy Airfield 20V · 29 nm northwest Henderson Mine Heliport CD25 · 0 nm south · private Berthoud Pass Heliport CD37 · 4 nm east · private Middle Park Health Fraser Campus Heliport 11CO · 10 nm north · private Snake River Health Services INC Heliport 83CO · 11 nm southwest · private Amax Mill Heliport CD18 · 11 nm west · private Common Spirit St. Anthony Summit Hospital Heliport 91CO · 16 nm southwest · private

Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register

Record

Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,860 since 1982 · 384 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
Colorado 7,469 aircraft registered

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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 November 4, 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.