AirIndex Research · FAA LID 5MD9

SUBURBAN

BETHESDA, MD — Washington D.C. metro. Operational · Private use.

OperationalPrivate usePrivate
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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 382 ft MSL · USGS ground 366 ft · Δ 16 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
On a building footprint — height not tagged in the source
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

InfeasibleConversion feasibility · obstruction screen
100 ft · eVTOL FATO60 ft
The recorded pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
60 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
High obstacle within 0.5 nm — conflicts with the expanded footprint and 8:1 approach

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 determinationON_FILE
OE3A archive: ASN 1990-AEA-465-NRA determined 1991-02-13
Q3 · State enforcementUNKNOWN
State enforcement posture not yet assessed.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
5MD9
AIX ID
aix:hp:SRFF6EXE
Lat / Lng
38.99748, -77.10993
Elevation
382 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
1994/02
Last owner update
2025/05/06

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 1990-12-21
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1990-AEA-465-NRA
    1991-02-13
    Other · 0 ft AGL — TIME EXT GRANTED TIL 9/93.GR LEVEL TO ELEV HELIPAD
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
76/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 60 ft

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

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation382 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordOn a building
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 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:SRFF6EXE · Methodology →
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SUBURBAN, BETHESDA, MD (FAA 5MD9). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:SRFF6EXE. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:SRFF6EXE.

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