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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 81 ft MSL · USGS ground 20 ft · Δ 61 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
On a building footprint — height not tagged in the source
Building height ≈ 19 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
CONDITIONALConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Clear
No obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file.
Geometry
Requires 47 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 53 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 47 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
53 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
48FD
AIX ID
aix:hp:DRT2379Y
Lat / Lng
26.43806, -80.12778
Elevation
81 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
53 × 53 ft
Surface type
MATS
Surface condition
GOOD
Activation date
1991/12
Last owner update
2021/04/30
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations3
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2019-03-19
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2019-ASO-1372-NRA2019-08-08
Form 7480 · 65 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2019-ESA-10-LAP; Proposal to adjust the TLOF dimensions of H2 from 60' x 60' to 53' x 53' at private-use heliport: Delray Beach Medical Center Emergency Heliport (48FD) Delray Beach FL. The physical rooftop helipad will not be relocated only repainted. No IFR procedures anticipated.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASO-2381-NRA2017-10-10
Form 7480 · 63 ft AGL — Proposal to establish a new privately owned private use rooftop helipad (H2) at Delray Beach Medical Center (48FD) in Delray Beach FL Palm Beach County. The aluminum helipad has been constructed 63ft AGL (TLOF: 61' x 61'; FATO: 87.5' Diameter). IFR procedures are anticipated within 1 year. The existing ground-level helipad (H1) located on the south side of the hospital will remain operational.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASO-2311-NRA2017-02-24
Form 7480 · 63 ft AGL — Proposal to establish a new privately owned private use rooftop helipad (H2) at Delray Beach Medical Center (48FD) in Delray Beach FL Palm Beach County. The aluminum helipad has been constructed 63ft AGL (TLOF: 61' x 61'; FATO: 87.5' Diameter). No IFR procedures are anticipated. The existing ground-level helipad (H1) located on the south side of the hospital will be deactivated concurrently with the activation of the new rooftop helipad (H2).
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
64/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 81 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 39 ft — a -42 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 53 ft pad is 47 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation81 ft39 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordOn a building
Pad dimensions53 ft side (filed)53 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.
DELRAY MEDICAL CENTER EMERGENCY HELISTOP, DELRAY BEACH, FL (FAA 48FD). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:DRT2379Y. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:DRT2379Y.