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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
⚠ Location-suspect — recorded coordinates may be mislocated
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 14 ft MSL · USGS ground -2 ft · Δ 16 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Ground-level — no building footprint at the coordinate
Cross-source consensus
Single independent source — no corroboration available
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
CONDITIONALConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Clear
No obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file.
Geometry
Requires 68 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 32 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
Conditional
Obstruction screen passed. Geometry and structural capacity remain open. Site validation required.
The recorded pad is 68 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
32 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
12FA
AIX ID
aix:hp:S8KNANXG
Lat / Lng
28.27958, -80.67378
Elevation
14 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
36 × 32 ft
Surface type
WOOD
Surface condition
FAIR
Activation date
2017/09
Last owner update
2020/03/30
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations3
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2017-03-07
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASO-976-NRA2017-08-09
Form 7480 · 14 ft AGL — Proposal for new privately owned private use heliport: Niazi Helipad in Merritt Island FL. The proposed helipad will be a 36ft x 32ft wood dock already constructed on Honeymoon Lake. No IFR procedures anticipated.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASO-1053-NRA2017-04-13
Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — Proposal for a new privately owned private use seaplane base: Niazi Seaplane Base in Merritt Island FL. The proposed water runway will be 3 907ft long and 50ft wide on Honeymoon Lake. No IFR procedures anticipated.
The 32 ft pad is 68 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation14 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions32 ft side (filed)32 ft side · measured
Coordinate integrityas filed⚠ location-suspect
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.