Airports · Louisiana · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Ochsner Medical Institutions Heliport

LS96 · Jefferson, Louisiana · Jefferson County · map

Ochsner Medical Institutions Heliport is a private heliport owned by Ochsner Medical Institutions in Jefferson, Louisiana, 7 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 airport

Codes: FAA LS96
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Ochsner Medical Institutions
Elevation: 7 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: New Orleans sectional
Magnetic variation: 2E
In the FAA's files since: January 1992

This airport's record at the FAA

Landing pad

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Pad	Length × width	Surface	Lights
H1	50 × 50 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Jefferson from the FAA register

1 aircraft are registered to owners in Jefferson, Louisiana: 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this heliport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this heliport alone.

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Louisiana.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International MSY · 6 nm west Lakefront Airport NEW · 7 nm northeast Port Of South Louisiana Executive Regional APS · 24 nm west Slidell Airport ASD · 28 nm northeast St. Tammany Regional L31 · 30 nm north Childrens Hospital Of New Orleans Heliport LA93 · 3 nm south · private Umcno Heliport LA58 · 3 nm east · private East Jefferson General Hospital Heliport LS85 · 3 nm northwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Remove pedestrian shelter 50 feet from pad; install a 3 feet perimeter fence; remove 3 light standards south and southeast; add 3 balls on power line north of pad.
Medical.
Avoid residential area 600 feet northeast of pad.
60 feet power line 250 feet north; 30 feet building 456 feet south and 70 feet building 1000 feet south of pad.

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.