Gila Regional Heliport
NM85 · Silver City, New Mexico · Grant County · map
Gila Regional Heliport is a private heliport owned by Gila Regional Medical Center, 3 miles southwest of Silver City, New Mexico, 6,097 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 54 by 54 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 NM85
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Gila Regional Medical Center
- Elevation
- 6,097 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2002
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 54 × 54 ft | Asphalt |
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: Grant County (11 nm southeast), Lordsburg Municipal (35 nm southwest), Deming Municipal (42 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Grant County (11 nm southeast), Lordsburg Municipal (35 nm southwest), Deming Municipal (42 nm southeast).
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 New Mexico · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical.
- Numerous obstructions surround helipad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Silver City from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Silver City, New Mexico: 13 piston singles, 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.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in New Mexico.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Silver City, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Companies in the same town as this heliport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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.
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Silver City 14 aircraft · 13 piston singles, 1 turboprops
- Fuel Center Plus INC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Accidents and incidents in New Mexico 1,422 since 1982 · 183 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 4 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Mexico 65 landing places
- New Mexico 3,107 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NM85.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.