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

Rapid City Regional Hospital Heliport

SD40 · Rapid City, South Dakota · Pennington County · map

Rapid City Regional Hospital Heliport is a private heliport in Rapid City, South Dakota, 3,354 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 48 by 48 feet of concrete.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA SD40
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 3,354 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
On the chart: Billings sectional
Magnetic variation: 11E
In the FAA's files since: March 1993

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	48 × 48 ft	Concrete	Perimeter lights

Aircraft registered in Rapid City from the FAA register

152 aircraft are registered to owners in Rapid City, South Dakota: 98 piston singles, 13 turboprops, 13 gliders, 9 piston twins, 7 helicopters. 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:

Dale Aviation INC 8Plane Training LLC 4Cole-Tac LLC 3Charlie Tango LLC 3Rebel Aircraft LLC 2Estes Aviation LLC 2Dale Aviation 2Black Hills Helicopters INC 2Black Hills Aviation Leasing LLC 2Aero Leasing LLC 2

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this heliport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this heliport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Rapid City Regional RAP · 7 nm east Sturgis Municipal 49B · 23 nm north Custer County CUT · 26 nm southwest Shooting Star Ranch Heliport 26SD · 3 nm southwest · private Exceptional Community Hospital Heliport SD38 · 4 nm northeast · private Dan'S Airport 4SD4 · 8 nm east · private Ellsworth Air Force Base RCA · 8 nm northeast · private Infinity Landing Airport SD25 · 10 nm north · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided approach/departure rte operations from 60 to 330 degreess; takeoff/landing area marked; and wind indicator is maintained.
Medical use.
100 feet building 800 feet north.

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.