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

Avera St. Luke'S Heliport

SD54 · Aberdeen, South Dakota · Brown County · map

Avera St. Luke'S Heliport is a private heliport owned by Avera St Luke'S Hospital in Aberdeen, South Dakota, 1,304 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 SD54
Kind: Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Avera St Luke'S Hospital
Elevation: 1,304 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Twin Cities sectional
Magnetic variation: 8E
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	30 × 30 ft	Concrete

Aircraft registered in Aberdeen from the FAA register

78 aircraft are registered to owners in Aberdeen, South Dakota: 45 piston singles, 11 piston twins, 7 turboprops, 7 business jets, 5 drones. 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:

Aberdeen Flying Service 5Pocasaw Aerial Solutions LLC 3Hangar 9 INC 3Outka Air 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

Aberdeen Regional ABR · 2 nm east Groton Municipal 2E6 · 17 nm east Braun Airport SD32 · 2 nm southeast · private Thorson Airfield SD05 · 6 nm south · private Barber Field 30SD · 6 nm northwest · private Comstock Field 80SD · 19 nm north · private TC Field 2SD9 · 22 nm west · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided approach/departure rte operations from 090 degrees to 180 degrees; takeoff/landing area marked and wind indicator is maintained.
Medical use.
30 feet power line 100 feet north and 40 feet power line 300 feet 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.