Airports · New Mexico · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Lovelace Westside Hospital Heliport

NM50 · Albuquerque, New Mexico · Bernalillo County · map

Lovelace Westside Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Lovelace Westside Hospital, 5 miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 5,218 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 30 by 30 feet of asphalt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA NM50
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Lovelace Westside Hospital
Elevation: 5,218 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Albuquerque sectional
Magnetic variation: 11E
In the FAA's files since: December 1985

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	30 × 30 ft	Asphalt

Aircraft registered in Albuquerque from the FAA register

1,177 aircraft are registered to owners in Albuquerque, New Mexico: 528 piston singles, 370 balloons, 89 turboprops, 59 piston twins, 39 business jets. 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:

Sky West Aviation INC Trustee 286 Rainbow Ryders INC 48 Copter Lease LLC Trustee 11 South Aero INC 9 Bode Aviation INC 8 Perfect Flight LLC 7 Csi 135 Division LLC 7 Aml Global Payments LLC 7 South Aero LLC 6 Csi Aviation INC 5

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in New Mexico.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Double Eagle II Airport AEG · 7 nm southwest Albuquerque International Sunport ABQ · 11 nm south Sandia Airpark Estates East 1N1 · 26 nm east Mid Valley Airpark E98 · 27 nm south Rust Medical Center Heliport NM36 · 1 nm northwest · private Sandoval Regional Medical Center Heliport 50NM · 6 nm north · private Albuquerque Regional Medical Center Heliport NM00 · 7 nm south · private Presbyterian Hospital Heliport NM39 · 8 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Medical.
Controlling obstruction: for H1 helpad, 40 feet pines, 180 feet south. 26 feet building, 270 feet west.
Ardent health services dba Lovelace Westside Hospital
40' power lines 180' south; 26' building 270' west.

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.