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 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
- 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 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Illinois.
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
- 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.
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.