Hendrick Medical Center Heliport
TA38 · Abilene, Texas · Taylor County · map
Hendrick Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Hendrick Medical Center, 1 mile northeast of Abilene, Texas, 1,704 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 120 by 100 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 TA38
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Hendrick Medical Center
- Elevation
- 1,704 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
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1991
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 120 × 100 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: Abilene Regional (4 nm southeast), Albany Municipal (28 nm northeast), Gregory M Simmons Memorial (37 nm east), Avenger Field (37 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Abilene Regional (4 nm southeast), Arledge Field (26 nm north), Albany Municipal (28 nm northeast), Gregory M Simmons Memorial (37 nm east).
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 Texas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical.
- Director, plant operations.
- 25 feet building 85 feet nne; 36 feet building 70 feet northwest; 85 feet building 170 feet ene; 10 feet building 250 feet sse; 12 feet buildings 330 feet east; 35 feet power lines 200 feet south of helipad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Abilene from the FAA register
109 aircraft are registered to owners in Abilene, Texas: 87 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 4 business jets, 3 turboprops, 3 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:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
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:
- Macav Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · Abilene, 5 miles away
Repair stations in Abilene:
- Eagle Aviation Services INC
- Freeman Holdings of West Texas, LLC Freeman Jet Center is an FBO and repair station based in Abilene, Texas, operating since 1968.
- Sturgill Turbine Service INC
- Texas Aerospace Services INC
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 Abilene 109 aircraft · 87 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 4 business jets
- Rockhut Aviation LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Jaju Aviation INC 2 aircraft in town
- Macav Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Eagle Aviation Services INC · repair station
- Freeman Holdings of West Texas, LLC · repair station
- Sturgill Turbine Service INC · repair station
- Texas Aerospace Services INC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,058 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,939 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TA38.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.