Carle Hospital Heliport
IS96 · Urbana, Illinois · Champaign County · map
Carle Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, 879 feet above sea level. It has 2 landing pads.
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 IS96
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Carle Foundation Hospital
- Elevation
- 879 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
- Chicago sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1982
Landing pads 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 54 × 44 ft | Asphalt | Perimeter lights |
| H2 | 50 × 50 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
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: Frasca Field (2 nm northeast), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (6 nm southwest), Rantoul Ntl Avn Cntr-Frank Elliott Field (11 nm north), Paxton Airport (20 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Frasca Field (2 nm northeast), University Of Illinois/Willard Airport (6 nm southwest), Rantoul Ntl Avn Cntr-Frank Elliott Field (11 nm north), Paxton Airport (20 nm north).
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
- Provided app/departure operations are condd in area 360-180 degrees using pad as the cntr of compass rose. Takeoff/landing area aproply marked. NON-OBSTG wind indcr maintd.
- Medical use.
- Rooftop. Alum.
- Rooftop - concrete.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Urbana from the FAA register
34 aircraft are registered to owners in Urbana, Illinois: 22 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 helicopters, 2 gliders, 1 turboprop. 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:
- Aero Place Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Urbana, 2 miles away
- Beech Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 3 miles away Beech Flyers is a flying club based at Van Nuys Airport in California that provides Beechcraft-specific pilot training and aircraft rental.
- Instrument Trainer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 3 miles away D14 Aviation is a flight school offering pilot training programs including private pilot, commercial pilot, certified flight instructor, instrument rating, and multi-engine rating certifications.
- Tab Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Champaign, 3 miles away
- University of Illinois 12 aircraft · Savoy, 5 miles away
- Engin Aires Aero Club 2 aircraft · Savoy, 5 miles away EnginAires Aero Club is an equity-based flying club founded in 1956 and based at University of Illinois Willard Airport (KCMI) in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
- Summerskyz INC 7 aircraft · Saint Joseph, 9 miles away SummerSkyz is a helicopter flight school and tour operator based in the Chicago area with locations in Lansing and Danville, Illinois.
Charter operators and airlines based in Urbana:
- The FlightStar Corporation 10 aircraft on the certificate Flightstar is a full-service Fixed Base Operator (FBO) and Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility operating in central Illinois since 1978.
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 Urbana 34 aircraft · 22 piston singles, 5 business jets, 3 helicopters
- Summerskyz INC 3 aircraft in town
- Frasca Air Museum INC 2 aircraft in town
- Frasca Air Museum 2 aircraft in town
- The FlightStar Corporation 10 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Aero Place Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Beech Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Instrument Trainer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- 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/IS96.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.
