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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 7 ft MSL · USGS ground 6 ft · Δ 1 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Ground-level — no building footprint at the coordinate
Site use
⚠ Event-venue landing site — may not be a standing facility
Facility name identifies an event venue (STADIUM). The FAA record carries no use-frequency field; the pad may exist only for events. Confirm a standing facility before treating it as a conversion candidate.
Cross-source consensus
Corroborated — terrain and structure agree (2/2 sources)
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
INFEASIBLE WITHOUT REMEDIATIONConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Severe
High obstacle within 0.5 nm conflicts with the expanded footprint and the 8:1 approach surface.
Geometry
Requires 54 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 46 ft against a 100 ft eVTOL FATO.
Structural FATO
Unverified
The full 100 × 100 ft FATO must be load-bearing. The FAA does not record structural capacity, so no record can confirm it.
Overall
Infeasible without remediation
A high obstacle conflicts with the expanded footprint. Remediation or a different site.
The recorded pad is 54 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
46 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.
Measured against FAA pad geometry and federal FATO sizing (EB-105). The obstruction screen is the only reading the engine verdict rests on; geometry and structural capacity are stated separately and never folded into it. A dimensional pre-screen — site-level validation required, and independent of the underwriting risk score.
Jurisdiction has adopted NFPA 418 in fire/building code.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
09FL
AIX ID
aix:hp:2598S5N8
Lat / Lng
25.96006, -80.24181
Elevation
7 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
46 × 46 ft
Surface type
TURF
Surface condition
FAIR
Activation date
2025/03
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2022-09-22
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2022-ASO-7807-NRA2023-02-01
Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2022-ESA-174-LAP; Proposed additional helipad at Hard Rock Stadium (0FD2) in Miami Gardens FL. No IFR Procedures are anticipated for the turf ground level helipad.
Safety history (NTSB)2
Accident history
2 NTSB helicopter events within 3 nm since 2010 (2 accidents); most recent 2026-06-13.
ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY R22 MARINER · Hollywood, FL — NTSB CAROL
NTSB helicopter accidents & incidents geocoded within 3 nm of this pad and attributed to the nearest facility — proximity, not a determination that an event occurred at this site. Source: NTSB aviation accident database.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
79/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 46 ft pad is 54 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation7 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions46 ft side (filed)46 ft side · measured
Coordinate integrityas filedterrain cross-checked
Independent inspectionowner self-reportednone on record
✓Federal record
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✓Cross-checkedUSGS · Overture · dimensions
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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.
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.
HARD ROCK STADIUM WEST, MIAMI GARDENS, FL (FAA 09FL). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:2598S5N8. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:2598S5N8.