Whelan'S Heliport
ID47 · Huston, Idaho · Canyon County · map
Whelan'S Heliport is a private heliport, 1 mile south of Huston, Idaho, 2,563 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 60 by 60 feet of grass.
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 ID47
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,563 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Salt Lake City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1984
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 60 × 60 ft | Grass |
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: Caldwell Executive (7 nm northeast), Nampa Municipal (11 nm east), Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field (24 nm east), Ontario Municipal (27 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Caldwell Executive (7 nm northeast), Nampa Municipal (11 nm east), Emmett Municipal (19 nm northeast), Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field (24 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 Idaho · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Filed for record purposes only.
- 25' power line 200' west; house and 50' trees 550' north; house 200' south; 16' hangar north.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Huston from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Huston, ID as the owner's town.
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:
- Silverhawk Aviation Academy LLC 32 aircraft · Caldwell, 8 miles away Silverhawk Aviation Academy is an FAA-approved Part 141 flight school in Caldwell, Idaho, offering helicopter and airplane flight training since 1998.
- Specialized Helicopter Training LLC 1 aircraft · Middleton, 11 miles away Specialized Helicopter Training provides flight training to helicopter pilots in specialized utility operations including longline, sling operations, mountain flying, water dropping, and fire behavior.
- T Craft Aero Club INC 7 aircraft · Nampa, 13 miles away T-Craft Aero Club is a member-owned, non-profit flying club based at Nampa Municipal Airport in Idaho.
- Nampa Taildragger Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Nampa, 13 miles away
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
- Accidents and incidents in Idaho 1,535 since 1982 · 288 in the last ten years
- Silverhawk Aviation Academy LLC 32 aircraft · flight school
- Specialized Helicopter Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- T Craft Aero Club INC 7 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Idaho 129 landing places
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/ID47.json.
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 26, 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.