AirIndex Research · FAA LID 42CL

COSTA MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT

COSTA MESA, CA — Los Angeles metro. Operational · Private use.

OperationalPrivate usePublic
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Data integrity

64/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 60 ft MSL · USGS ground 77 ft · Δ -17 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
On a building footprint — height not tagged in the source
Building height ≈ 8 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
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

FeasibleConversion feasibility · obstruction screen
100 ft · eVTOL FATO67 ft
The recorded pad is 33 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
67 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
Clear — no obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file

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 determinationUNKNOWN
FAA OE/AAA airspace determination data integration pending.
Q3 · State enforcementSTRONG
State has adopted FAA AC as enforceable.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
42CL
AIX ID
aix:hp:55PYQQ55
Lat / Lng
33.66289, -117.90394
Elevation
60 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
93 × 67 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
1970/11
Last owner update
2022/08/29

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations0

No FAA OEAAA determinations linked to this facility.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
64/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 77ftROOFTOP 85ftbldg ~8ftFAA FILED 60ft

The FAA record places this pad at 60 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 85 ft — a +25 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 67 ft

The 67 ft pad is 33 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation60 ft85 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordOn a building
Pad dimensions67 ft side (filed)67 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:55PYQQ55 · Methodology →
Cite this facility

COSTA MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT, COSTA MESA, CA (FAA 42CL). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:55PYQQ55. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:55PYQQ55.

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