Rice Medical Center Heliport
TA39 · Eagle Lake, Texas · Colorado County · map
Rice Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport owned by Rice Medical Center, 2 miles northeast of Eagle Lake, Texas, 174 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 TA39
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Rice Medical Center
- Elevation
- 174 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1979
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: Eagle Lake Airport (1 nm northeast), Robert R Wells JR Airport (9 nm west), Wharton Regional (22 nm southeast), Houston Executive (27 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Eagle Lake Airport (1 nm northeast), Robert R Wells JR Airport (9 nm west), Wharton Regional (22 nm southeast), Houston Executive (27 nm northeast).
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
- VFR operations only.
- Medical
- 40'X40' concrete TD pad WI 65'X65' concrete landing area.
- And flood lights.
- 24' lighted power line 112' northwest; 34' marked power lines 255' northwest and parl to so austin road; 24' power lines 65' south; 175' ant 20' northeast; 60' ant 245' southeast of landing pad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Eagle Lake from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Eagle Lake, Texas: 4 piston singles, 2 business jets, 1 helicopter. 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:
- Professional Pilot Training INC 4 aircraft · Eagle Lake, 2 miles away Professional Pilot Training & Associates is a flight school located in Eagle Lake, Texas, with 30 years of aviation experience.
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 Eagle Lake 7 aircraft · 4 piston singles, 2 business jets, 1 helicopters
- Professional Pilot Training INC 3 aircraft in town
- Professional Pilot Training INC 4 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 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 29,943 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TA39.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 29, 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.