Lonesome Pine Hospital Heliport
VG50 · Big Stone Gap, Virginia · Wise County · map
Lonesome Pine Hospital Heliport is a private heliport in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 1,596 feet above sea level. Its landing pad, H1, is 50 by 50 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 VG50
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,596 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 2002
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 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: Lonesome Pine Airport (13 nm northeast), Lee County (26 nm southwest), Tri-Cities Airport (29 nm southeast), Tucker-Guthrie Memorial (29 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lonesome Pine Airport (13 nm northeast), Hawkins County (26 nm south), Lee County (26 nm southwest), Tri-Cities Airport (29 nm southeast).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided 8:1 ingress/egress with appropriate markings, lighted windsock for night operations, control vehicular traffic, VFR only.
- Medical use.
- Runway H1 5 feet lighted building 145 feet north.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Big Stone Gap from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Big Stone Gap, Virginia: 3 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.
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 Virginia.
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 Big Stone Gap 6 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twins
- Tuck Aerial Surveys INC 3 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 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 Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,975 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/VG50.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.