St. Joseph Memorial Hospital Heliport
IS38 · Murphysboro, Illinois · Jackson County · map
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Southern Il Hospital Ser INC in Murphysboro, Illinois, 405 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 IS38
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Southern Il Hospital Ser INC
- Elevation
- 405 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1989
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete |
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: Southern Illinois Airport (3 nm east), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (15 nm east), Perryville Regional (26 nm west), Sparta Community-Hunter Field (29 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Southern Illinois Airport (3 nm east), Pinckneyville/Du Quoin Airport (12 nm north), Veterans Airport Of Southern Illinois (15 nm east), Benton Municipal (23 nm northeast).
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
- Medical use.
- Ext. 55575
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Murphysboro from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Murphysboro, Illinois: 41 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 1 drone, 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:
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 35 aircraft · Murphysboro, 1 mile away Southern Illinois University is a public university system with campuses at Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois.
Repair stations in Murphysboro:
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 Murphysboro 48 aircraft · 41 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 1 drones
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 17 aircraft in town
- Southern Illinois University 7 aircraft in town
- Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees DBA 3 aircraft in town
- Board of Trustees DBA 3 aircraft in town
- Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 35 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Crucial Mro, LLC · repair station
- Flight Services · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Illinois 2,117 since 1982 · 250 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 8,050 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/IS38.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 28, 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.