Centracare Health Paynesville Heliport
MN72 · Paynesville, Minnesota · Stearns County · map
Centracare Health Paynesville Heliport is a private heliport in Paynesville, Minnesota, 1,179 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 45 by 45 feet of concrete and grass.
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 MN72
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,179 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Twin Cities sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2015
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 45 × 45 ft | Concrete and grass |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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: Willmar Muni/John L Rice Field (23 nm southwest), St. Cloud Sky Central Airport (30 nm east), Hutchinson Muni/Butler Field (34 nm southeast), Benson Municipal (39 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Paynesville Municipal (1 nm west), Brooten Muni/John O Bohmer Field (18 nm northwest), Litchfield Municipal (19 nm southeast), Sauk Centre Municipal (22 nm northwest).
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 Minnesota · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Conditional: all operations are conducted in VFR weater conditions; the landing area is limited to private use; the helicopter operations can be conducted safely from this heliport provided the heliport is maintained in accordance with AC 150/5390-2C and that the following conditions are met: repaint helipad and update with appropriate markings per AC 150/5390-2C and remove pine tree in safety area. Flight standards has found the proposed ingress/egress routes of 330/155 degrees and 235/055 degrees acceptable. The flight procedures office recommends: ingress/egress points east, southeast and southeast of heliport. Any southwest/west egress/ingress would underlie final on all procedures into runway 29 at Paynesville municipal (pex), MN which in.95 NM southwest of the helipad location. Aircraft flying the procedures (RNAVs) will be descending out of 2800' to 1720' abeam final approach to runway 29 thld. Pattern altitudes ingress and egress routes and altitudes should be developed to avoid these areas.
- Medical use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Paynesville from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Paynesville, Minnesota: 7 piston singles, 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
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 Paynesville 8 aircraft · 7 piston singles, 1 piston twins
- Accidents and incidents in Minnesota 1,542 since 1982 · 207 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Minnesota 146 landing places
- Minnesota 6,939 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MN72.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 30, 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.