Airports · South Carolina · heliport · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Lexington Medical Center Heliport

SC18 · West Columbia, South Carolina · Lexington County · map

Lexington Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Lexington Medical Center, 1 mile west of West Columbia, South Carolina, 340 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 30 by 30 feet of concrete.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA SC18
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
Owner: Lexington Medical Center
Elevation: 340 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Atlanta sectional
Magnetic variation: 4W
In the FAA's files since: March 1989

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	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in West Columbia from the FAA register

36 aircraft are registered to owners in West Columbia, South Carolina: 18 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 4 gliders, 4 business jets, 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.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Celebrate Freedom Foundation INC 5 Celebrate Freedom Foundation 5Eagle Aviation Columbia LLC 4Stemme USA INC 3Bankair INC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in South Carolina.

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Columbia Metro Airport CAE · 4 nm south Jim Hamilton L B Owens Airport CUB · 6 nm east Lexington County 6J0 · 14 nm southwest Fairfield County FDW · 19 nm north Richland Memorial Hospital Heliport SC22 · 4 nm east · private Sled Heliport 2SC6 · 4 nm north · private Providence Hospital Heliport SC77 · 5 nm east · private Darden Airport SC13 · 10 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Medical.

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.