Salem Memorial Hospital Heliport
MO40 · Salem, Missouri · Dent County · map
Salem Memorial Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Salem Meml District Hospital, 2 miles northwest of Salem, Missouri, 1,170 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 feet of asphalt.
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 MO40
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Salem Meml District Hospital
- Elevation
- 1,170 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1973
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Perimeter lights |
- Runway H1: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- air ambulance
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Waynesville-St Robert Regional Forney Field (28 nm west), Rolla Ntl Airport (30 nm north), Sullivan Regional (39 nm northeast), Washington County (43 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Salem Memorial (3 nm southwest), Cuba Municipal (25 nm north), Houston Memorial (28 nm southwest), Waynesville-St Robert Regional Forney Field (28 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 Missouri · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Four 500 watt quartz flood lights.
- Ext: 4510
- Pad inset lights, perimeter lights and landing direction lights.
- Approach from southeast: 32' trees 310' from pad 25' L - approach ratio 9:1; approach from northeast: +45' trees 880' B, approach ratio 19:1.
- Military landing rights.
- Caution:heights and distances of objects are approx measurements.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Salem from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Salem, Missouri: 7 piston singles, 4 helicopters, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Missouri.
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 Salem 13 aircraft · 7 piston singles, 4 helicopters, 1 piston twins
- Skyline Helicopters LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Missouri 1,637 since 1982 · 216 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Missouri 124 landing places
- Missouri 5,812 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MO40.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.