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CAPITOL NTL BANK BUILDING

AUSTIN, TX — Austin metro. Closed indefinitely · Private use.

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Data integrity

53/100
Self-reportedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 540 ft MSL · USGS ground 536 ft · Δ 4 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 94 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
Cross-source consensus
⚠ Sources conflict — pad is on a building, but FAA elevation reads ground level
Stale-low FAA elevation (the 6FD8 class) — never updated for the rooftop pad. Treat the recorded elevation as unreliable.

Cross-checked against independent public data — USGS 3DEP terrain, Overture/OSM building footprints, the federal hospital registry, and measured dimensions. The State of the U.S. Heliport Record →

eVTOL readiness

InfeasibleConversion feasibility · obstruction screen
100 ft · eVTOL FATO40 ft
The recorded pad is 60 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
40 ft
eVTOL FATO required
100 ft
FAA EB-105 vertiport pattern — 2× a ~50 ft eVTOL controlling dimension, plus a 125 ft safety-area side.
Load-bearing FATO
100 × 100 ft must be structural
No heliport precedent — typically the binding gate for rooftop and hospital pads.
Obstruction clearance
High obstacle within 0.5 nm — conflicts with the expanded footprint and 8:1 approach

Measured against FAA pad geometry and federal FATO sizing (EB-105). A dimensional pre-screen — site-level validation required, and independent of the underwriting risk score.

FAA compliance

Q1 · FAA registrationPASS
Active FAA NASR 5010 record.
Q2 · Airspace determinationON_FILE
OE3A archive: ASN 1989-ASW-44-NRA determined 1998-10-05
Q3 · State enforcementLIMITED
State has limited enforcement of FAA standards.
Q4 · NFPA 418PARTIAL
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
04TA
AIX ID
aix:hp:9W1PN6AR
Lat / Lng
30.27104, -97.74473
Elevation
540 ft MSL
Activation date
1982/02
Last owner update
1991/08/02

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 1989-01-24
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1989-ASW-44-NRA
    1998-10-05
    Other · 0 ft AGL — REACTIVATION FIRST CITY CENTRE HELIPORT--OBJECTIONABLE 04-03-89--_FURTHUR REVIEW NO OBJECTION 06-29-89
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
53/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 536ftROOFTOP 629ftbldg ~94ftFAA FILED 540ft

The FAA record places this pad at 540 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 629 ft — a +89 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 40 ft

The 40 ft pad is 60 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation540 ft629 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensionsnot on file40 ft side · measured
Coordinate integrityas filedterrain cross-checked
Independent inspectionowner self-reportednone on record
Federal record
Cross-checkedUSGS · Overture · dimensions
3Physically verifiedGround Truth capture
Obstructions, exact FATO geometry, surface condition, and downwash exposure require a physical Ground Truth capture — not shown above as measured. A field verification completes the record and writes the measured truth to this facility’s authority.
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Full risk assessment

This page is the public data-integrity record. The full RiskIndex assessment — Q1–Q5 compliance, dimensional / FATO analysis, an underwriting-grade risk score, peer benchmark, and a sealed Site Intelligence Report — is available on request.

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Provenance FAA NASR 5010 · pad dims APT cycle 2026/03/19 · USGS 3DEP terrain · Overture structure · eVTOL screen conversion-feasibility-1.1 · AIX-ID aix:hp:9W1PN6AR · Methodology →
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CAPITOL NTL BANK BUILDING, AUSTIN, TX (FAA 04TA). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:9W1PN6AR. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:9W1PN6AR.

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