Sarasota Memorial Hospital North Port ER Heliport
FA87 · North Port, Florida · Sarasota County · map
Sarasota Memorial Hospital North Port ER Heliport is a private heliport owned by Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board, 4 miles northeast of North Port, Florida, 25 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 45 by 45 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 FA87
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board
- Elevation
- 25 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- September 2017
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 45 × 45 ft | Concrete, good |
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: Punta Gorda Airport (12 nm southeast), Venice Municipal (15 nm west), Sarasota/Bradenton International (29 nm northwest), Page Field (32 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Punta Gorda Airport (12 nm southeast), Venice Municipal (15 nm west), Arcadia Municipal (19 nm northeast), Sarasota/Bradenton International (29 nm northwest).
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 Florida · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- See airspace case number 2017-ASO-2028-NRA
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in North Port from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in North Port, Florida: 11 piston singles, 1 balloon. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Florida.
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:
- Fubar Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Port Charlotte, 5 miles away
- Florida and Caribbean Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · Punta Gorda, 14 miles away Universal Flight Training is a flight school based in Sarasota, Florida that offers pilot training from Private Pilot through Certified Flight Instructor certificates, as well as aircraft maintenance services.
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 North Port 12 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 1 balloons
- Fubar Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Florida and Caribbean Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Florida 6,103 since 1982 · 982 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Florida 128 landing places
- Florida 21,709 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/FA87.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.