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Maricopa County Special Health Care District · Trauma level I · 500 beds
Is the FAA record right?
FAA status: Open. Last FAA inspection: none on record (common for private-use pads, which the FAA does not routinely inspect). Last update from the owner: 2022/09/19. Our check of the record: Corroborated (details below).
What has the FAA said about its airspace?
4 FAA airspace determinations are linked to this site; the airspace finding on file is on_file. The list is below.
What is being built nearby?
1 FAA obstruction filing within 1 nm in the last 12 months, the tallest 52 ft above ground. Builders file these before putting up cranes and structures that could affect flight paths.
Building Multi_unit, 52 ft, 0.44 nm away, filed 2026-08-21 (2026-AWP-15495-OE)
To correct it, the facility manager signs in to ADIP and uses Airport Master Record, Update Facility Data (Airport/Heliport). The paper private-use form 5010-2 was retired in July 2024.
Building, changing, reopening or closing a landing site needs notice to the FAA on Form 7480-1 (14 CFR Part 157).
AirIndex compiles public FAA, federal and hospital records and checks them against each other. It is not a source for navigation or flight planning; use official FAA sources and your operator's procedures. See something wrong? Report a correction (how corrections work).
Data integrity
76/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 1278 ft MSL · USGS ground 1118 ft · Δ 160 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 126 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
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 57 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 43 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 57 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
43 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.
FAA compliance
Q1 · FAA registrationPASS
Active FAA NASR 5010 record.
Q2 · Airspace determinationON_FILE
OE/AAA ASN 2024-AWP-5555-NRA: DET-to-Prop
Q3 · State enforcementMODERATE
State has partial enforcement framework.
Q4 · NFPA 418PARTIAL
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.
BUILDING$MULTI_UNIT · 52 ft AGL — Banyan - 2220 E VAN BUREN ST PHOENIX 85006
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2024-AWP-5555-NRA2024-06-25
Form 7480 · 168 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2024-WSA-108-LAP-Proponent is requesting a separate LOC ID for a building top hospital heliport. The hospital already has a ground elevation heliport (20E).
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2021-AWP-2946-NRA2022-06-14
Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2021-WSA-89-LAP. Project to construct a new rooftop helipad. The existing ground level helipad will still be used. Project is expected to be completed in November.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2019-AWP-6328-NRA2020-06-15
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2019-WSA-92-LAP. Relocation of existing ground-level heliport approximately 130 feet to the south/southeast to make way for future construction and change of owner name from Maricopa Medical Center to Valleywise Health.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
76/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 1278 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 1244 ft — a -34 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 43 ft pad is 57 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation1278 ft1244 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions43 ft side (filed)43 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.
MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER, PHOENIX, AZ (FAA 20E). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:QKM0KR4X. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:QKM0KR4X.