Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 224 ft MSL · USGS ground 223 ft · Δ 1 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Ground-level — no building footprint at the coordinate
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 →
The recorded pad is 46 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
54 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.
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
0CA1
AIX ID
aix:hp:CQ50BGEA
Lat / Lng
37.69889, -122.08917
Elevation
224 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
54 × 54 ft
Surface type
CONC
Surface condition
FAIR
Activation date
2010/01
Last owner update
2019/09/16
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2008-10-02
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2008-AWP-787-NRA2008-12-10
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — ESTABLISHMENT OF CONCRETE HELIPORT. RELOCATION OF EXISTING GROUND LEVEL HELISTOP. EXISTING HELISTOP NOT LISTED IN 5010 ONLINE DATABASE.
Safety history (NTSB)1
Accident history
1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident); most recent 2018-12-28.
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
67/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 54 ft pad is 46 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation224 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions54 ft side (filed)54 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.
SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER CASTRO VALLEY, CASTRO VALLEY, CA (FAA 0CA1). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:CQ50BGEA. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:CQ50BGEA.