Mercy Hospital Pittsburg Heliport
SN50 · Pittsburg, Kansas · Crawford County · map
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg Heliport is a private heliport owned by Via Christi Hospital, 2 miles southeast of Pittsburg, Kansas, 915 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 40 by 40 feet of concrete.
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 SN50
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Via Christi Hospital
- Elevation
- 915 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1993
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
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: Atkinson Municipal (5 nm northwest), Joplin Regional (16 nm southeast), Lamar Municipal (19 nm east), Fort Scott Municipal (25 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Atkinson Municipal (5 nm northwest), Joplin Regional (16 nm southeast), Lamar Municipal (19 nm east), Oswego Municipal (22 nm southwest).
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 Kansas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided approach/departure for a 8:1 glide slope and a 2:1 transitional slope.
- Medical use.
- 72 feet building 160 feet southeast; 25 feet tree 200 feet west; and 30 feet light pole 38 feet south.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Pittsburg from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Pittsburg, Kansas: 5 piston singles, 3 business jets, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 balloon. 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 Kansas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Pittsburg Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Pittsburg, 5 miles away
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this heliport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Pittsburg 11 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 3 business jets, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Pittsburg Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Kansas 1,146 since 1982 · 149 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Kansas 150 landing places
- Kansas 5,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/SN50.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 28, 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.
