Bedford Hospital Heliport
TN15 · Shelbyville, Tennessee · Bedford County · map
Bedford Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital, 1 mile northwest of Shelbyville, Tennessee, 820 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 60 by 60 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 TN15
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital
- Elevation
- 820 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1988
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 60 × 60 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: Bomar Fld/Shelbyville Municipal (4 nm north), Tullahoma Rgnl/Wm Northern Field (13 nm southeast), Ellington Airport (16 nm west), Murfreesboro Municipal (24 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Bomar Fld/Shelbyville Municipal (4 nm north), Tullahoma Rgnl/Wm Northern Field (13 nm southeast), Ellington Airport (16 nm west), Murfreesboro Municipal (24 nm north).
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 Tennessee · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided FR/pvt use; portable fire extinguisher provided; procedure is estabd west/local fire dept to include fire suppressant chemicals; boundary fence between parking lost and helipad area extdd.
- Trees under 360 degreess departure route north of pad; red obstruction light on ambulance building antenna.
- Approach or departure north and northeast NA.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Shelbyville from the FAA register
55 aircraft are registered to owners in Shelbyville, Tennessee: 46 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 2 business jets, 2 balloons. 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 Tennessee.
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:
- Hawkins Flight Academy LLC 12 aircraft · Shelbyville, 5 miles away Hawkins Flight Academy is a flight school operating from two locations in Shelbyville, Tennessee and Tupelo, Mississippi.
- Wright Base Flight Training LLC 2 aircraft · Tullahoma, 15 miles away Wright Base Flight Training is a flight school operating from Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tennessee.
Repair stations in Shelbyville:
- Patriot Avionics LLC Patriot Avionics is an FAA-certified repair station in Shelbyville, Tennessee that provides avionics installation, service, repair, and troubleshooting for aircraft.
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 Shelbyville 55 aircraft · 46 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins
- Hawkins Flight Academy LLC 12 aircraft in town
- Haushold Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Gary Boyce Aircraft Sales LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Hawkins Flight Academy LLC 12 aircraft · flight school
- Wright Base Flight Training LLC 2 aircraft · flight school
- Patriot Avionics LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Tennessee 1,196 since 1982 · 229 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Tennessee 76 landing places
- Tennessee 6,522 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TN15.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 30, 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.