DE Soto Memorial Hospital Heliport
FD85 · Arcadia, Florida · De Soto County · map
DE Soto Memorial Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Desoto Memorial Hospital INC, 1 mile southwest of Arcadia, Florida, 65 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 70 by 45 feet of concrete.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FD85
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Desoto Memorial Hospital INC
- Elevation
- 65 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- On the chart
- Miami sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1986
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 70 × 45 ft | Concrete |
Aircraft registered in Arcadia from the FAA register
41 aircraft are registered to owners in Arcadia, Florida: 24 piston singles, 14 helicopters, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 piston twin. 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 Florida.
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 VFR pvt use only.
- 55' TV tower 185 degrees south; and 300' rdo tower 260 degrees 1/4 mile.
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.