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PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE

LAKE WORTH, FL. Operational · Private use.

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Data integrity

67/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 13 ft MSL · USGS ground 13 ft · Δ 0 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 →

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 60 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 40 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.
100 ft · eVTOL FATO40 ft
The recorded pad is 60 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
40 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
OE3A archive: ASN 2003-ASO-259-NRA determined 2003-12-17
Q3 · State enforcementSTRONG
State has adopted FAA AC as enforceable.
Q4 · NFPA 418ADOPTED
Jurisdiction has adopted NFPA 418 in fire/building code.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
42FD
AIX ID
aix:hp:1BC670TX
Lat / Lng
26.61022, -80.08810
Elevation
13 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
40 × 40 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
2004/09
Last owner update
2025/05/22

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations5

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2003-05-06
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-ASO-259-NRA
    2003-12-17
    Other · 0 ft AGL — PROPOSED PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT. FATO 90'X40'/TLOF 40' DIAMETER/CONCRETE PERIMETER LIGHTS. PROP AVERAGE MO LANDINGS 4 PRES 6 5 YRS.5MILE CIRCLE SEARCH: 2 PUBLIC-USE LNA/PBI AND 3 PRIVATE-USE 1FD3/55FL/4506
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-ASO-263-NRA
    2003-05-07
    Other · 0 ft AGL — PROPOSED PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT. FATO 90'X40'/TLOF 40' DIAMETER/CONCRETE PERIMETER LIGHTS. PROP AVERAGE MO LANDINGS 4 PRES 6 5 YRS.5MILE CIRCLE SEARCH: 2 PUBLIC-USE LNA/PBI AND 3 PRIVATE-USE 1FD3/55FL/4506
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-ASO-262-NRA
    2003-05-07
    Other · 0 ft AGL — PROPOSED PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT. FATO 90'X40'/TLOF 40' DIAMETER/CONCRETE PERIMETER LIGHTS. PROP AVERAGE MO LANDINGS 4 PRES 6 5 YRS.5MILE CIRCLE SEARCH: 2 PUBLIC-USE LNA/PBI AND 3 PRIVATE-USE 1FD3/55FL/4506
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-ASO-261-NRA
    2003-05-07
    Other · 0 ft AGL — PROPOSED PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT. FATO 90'X40'/TLOF 40' DIAMETER/CONCRETE PERIMETER LIGHTS. PROP AVERAGE MO LANDINGS 4 PRES 6 5 YRS.5MILE CIRCLE SEARCH: 2 PUBLIC-USE LNA/PBI AND 3 PRIVATE-USE 1FD3/55FL/4506
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-ASO-260-NRA
    2003-05-07
    Other · 0 ft AGL — PROPOSED PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT. FATO 90'X40'/TLOF 40' DIAMETER/CONCRETE PERIMETER LIGHTS. PROP AVERAGE MO LANDINGS 4 PRES 6 5 YRS.5MILE CIRCLE SEARCH: 2 PUBLIC-USE LNA/PBI AND 3 PRIVATE-USE 1FD3/55FL/4506
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
67/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 40 ft

The 40 ft pad is 60 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation13 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions40 ft side (filed)40 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

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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:1BC670TX · Methodology →
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