Fire Station No. 14 Heliport

Administrative De-registration. This type of heliport is a special-use facility for emergency services. The 'closure' does not signify a physical dismantling but rather the removal of its official status as a registered heliport with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Chesterfield County Fire and EMS likely determined that maintaining the official registration was no longer necessary, as medevac helicopters can utilize pre-designated, safe landing zones (LZs) without them being formally registered in national aviation databases.

The site is the active Chesterfield County Fire and EMS Station 14 (Centralia Station), located at 10120 Chester Road, Chester, VA. The physical paved area that served as the helipad, located behind the station, still exists. It is currently used for parking department vehicles, training drills, and as a maneuvering area for fire apparatus. While no longer an officially registered heliport, the open, paved space remains a viable and designated emergency landing zone for helicopters when required by emergency protocols.

The heliport's significance was purely functional and local. It served as a designated emergency landing zone for medevac helicopters, such as VCU LifeEvac. Its primary operation was to provide a safe, pre-surveyed, and lighted area for air ambulances to rendezvous with ground EMS crews from Fire Station 14. This facilitated the rapid transfer and transport of critically ill or injured patients from the Chester area to regional trauma centers, primarily the VCU Medical Center in Richmond. Operations were intermittent and exclusively for emergency medical purposes.

There are no known plans or prospects to reopen the facility as an officially registered heliport. Since the physical space is maintained and available for emergency landings as needed by Chesterfield County Fire and EMS, there is no operational need to go through the administrative process of re-registering it with the FAA. It continues to serve its essential emergency function without an official designation in aviation databases.