UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital Heliport
TX17 · Athens, Texas · Henderson County · map
UT Health East Texas Athens Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Athens Hospital, LLC., 3 miles south of Athens, Texas, 503 feet above sea level. It has 2 landing pads.
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 TX17
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Athens Hospital, LLC.
- Elevation
- 503 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
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- March 2005
Landing pads 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 100 × 120 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
| H2 | 40 × 40 ft | Concrete |
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: Athens Municipal (1 nm east), Palestine Municipal (24 nm south), Tyler Pounds Regional (25 nm northeast), C David Campbell Fld-Corsicana Municipal (29 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Athens Municipal (1 nm east), Palestine Municipal (24 nm south), Tyler Pounds Regional (25 nm northeast), C David Campbell Fld-Corsicana Municipal (29 nm west).
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
- See airspace ltr dated 9/28/04.
- Medical.
- 25 feet light pole 100 feet East and 20 feet trees 250 feet southwest of helipad.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Athens from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Athens, Texas: 17 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twin. 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 Texas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Athens, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
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 Athens 20 aircraft · 17 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twins
- Hangar Twenty Two Aviation LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- 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/TX17.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.