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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 90 ft MSL · USGS ground 75 ft · Δ 15 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
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 62 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 38 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 62 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
38 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.
Observed eVTOL activity is arriving around a pad that cannot take it: 16 observed flights in the last 30 days at 1 endpoint within 15 nm (nearest KSGR, 2 nm), while this hospital pad holds an airspace determination and records a 38 ft pad, under the 50 ft eVTOL FATO floor.
highsuspect record with trafficopened 2026-09-03 · situation-rules-v1
Record flagged as possibly mislocated at a hospital pad, with 16 observed eVTOL flights in the last 30 days at 1 endpoint within 15 nm (nearest KSGR, 2 nm): aircraft may be routed to a position the record does not support.
Situations are rules-based inferences across the obstruction, observed-operations and record layers, re-evaluated nightly; each carries its evidence and closes when the condition no longer holds.
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations3
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2018-01-18
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2018-ASW-346-NRA2018-04-27
Heliport · 1 ft AGL — New helipad to be constructed in an existing hospital parking lot.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASW-2279-NRA2017-08-01
Heliport · 1 ft AGL — New helipad to be constructed in an existing hospital parking lot.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2015-ASW-6975-NRA2015-12-14
Heliport · 1 ft AGL — New helipad to be constructed in an existing hospital parking lot.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
60/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 38 ft pad is 62 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation90 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions38 ft side (filed)38 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.
CHI ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, SUGARLAND, TX (FAA 42TE). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:SVXPKVSP. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:SVXPKVSP.