Mercy Regional Medical Center Heliport
LS53 · Ville Platte, Louisiana · Evangeline County · map
Mercy Regional Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Mercy Regional Medical Center in Ville Platte, Louisiana, 75 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 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 LS53
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Mercy Regional Medical Center
- Elevation
- 75 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1987
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Concrete, good | Perimeter lights |
- Runway H1: power line 36 ft high 60 ft from the end
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: St. Landry Parish Airport (11 nm southeast), Eunice Airport (15 nm southwest), Allen Parish Airport (22 nm west), Lafayette Rgnl/Paul Fournet Field (32 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: St. Landry Parish Airport (11 nm southeast), Eunice Airport (15 nm southwest), Bunkie Municipal (17 nm north), Allen Parish Airport (22 nm west).
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 Louisiana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical.
- South - ingress and egress - 5 lights, 5 feet apart for approach line.
- Edge painted with 6 in stripes; red, white, red.
- 36' power line (marked) 60' north of pad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Ville Platte from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Ville Platte, Louisiana: 2 piston singles, 2 drones, 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 Louisiana.
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 Ville Platte 5 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 2 drones, 1 turboprops
- Upper Deck Drone Services LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/LS53.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 29, 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.