St. Joseph'S Hospital-Highland Heliport
IL66 · Highland, Illinois · Madison County · map
St. Joseph'S Hospital-Highland Heliport is a private heliport owned by St Joseph'S Hospital-Highland, 1 mile north of Highland, Illinois, 548 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 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 IL66
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- St Joseph'S Hospital-Highland
- Elevation
- 548 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2015
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 40 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: Greenville Airport (14 nm east), Scott Afb/Midamerica St. Louis Airport (15 nm southwest), St. Louis Regional (19 nm northwest), St. Louis Downtown Airport (25 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Greenville Airport (14 nm east), Scott Afb/Midamerica St. Louis Airport (15 nm southwest), St. Louis Regional (19 nm northwest), St. Louis Downtown Airport (25 nm southwest).
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 Illinois · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Conditional: no objection from an airspace utilization stand point provided the proponent comply with the flight standards memo dtd 30 nov 2012. Flight standards division states the following: no objection to PRIVATE-USE, VFR heliport. Photographs show light poles in the southern quadrant from the helipad. The light poles should be marked or lowered so that they do not penetrate the 8:1 protected surface. If the southern quadrant is to be used for the ingress/egress, then the proponent must ensure that objects do not penetrate the 8:1 protected surface. Currently, the proponent has proposed an ingress/egress of 090 degrees and 270 degrees. In their memo to the chicago airports division office dtd 30 nov 2012, flights standards states as follows: this office has sutdied the construction surrounding the proposed state JOSEPH'S Hospital heliport PRIVATE-USE heliport located in Highland, IL from the standpoint of safety of helicopters operating to and from the proposed heliport. The study was an onsite evaluation and a review of the helport plans. Our position is that the helicopter operations can be conducted safely from this heliport provided the following conditions are met: all helicopter approach/departure route operations are conducted on an ingress/egress of 060 degree clockwise through 225 degree and 245 degree clockwise through 345 degree headings using the center of the proposed tlof as a reference point; all operations are conducted in VFR weather conditiions; the landing area is
- For emergency use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Highland from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Highland, Illinois: 9 piston singles, 3 drones, 2 gliders, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Illinois.
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:
- Silvercreek Glider Club 7 aircraft · New Douglas, 15 miles away Silvercreek Glider Club is an educational soaring club located near St.
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 Highland 15 aircraft · 9 piston singles, 3 drones, 2 gliders
- Crop Guardian LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Silvercreek Glider Club 7 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,118 since 1982 · 251 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Illinois 103 landing places
- Illinois 8,065 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IL66.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 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.
