Columbia Basin Hospital Heliport
WN56 · Ephrata, Washington · Grant County · map
Columbia Basin Hospital Heliport is a private heliport owned by Grant CO. Hospital District 3 in Ephrata, Washington, 1,300 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 WN56
- Kind
- Heliport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Grant CO. Hospital District 3
- Elevation
- 1,300 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Seattle sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 20E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1985
Landing pad
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Pad | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 | 50 × 50 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: Ephrata Municipal (1 nm east), Grant County International (11 nm southeast), Pangborn Memorial (27 nm west), Lake Chelan Airport (37 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Ephrata Municipal (1 nm east), Grant County International (11 nm southeast), Pangborn Memorial (27 nm west), Othello Municipal (37 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 Washington · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Medical use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Ephrata from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Ephrata, Washington: 11 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 glider. 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 Washington.
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:
- Big Bend Community College 33 aircraft · Moses Lake, 13 miles away
- Big Bend Community College Foundation 4 aircraft · Moses Lake, 13 miles away Big Bend Community College is a community college in Moses Lake, Washington that operates a flight programme offering aviation pilot and aviation maintenance technology degrees and certificates.
- 355 Flyers Association 1 aircraft · Moses Lake, 13 miles away
- Fat Tyre Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Moses Lake, 13 miles away
- Jackson Flight Center LLC 1 aircraft · Moses Lake, 13 miles away
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 Ephrata 15 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Big Bend Community College 33 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Big Bend Community College Foundation 4 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- 355 Flyers Association 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Washington 2,709 since 1982 · 359 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Washington 131 landing places
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/WN56.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 27, 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.