Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 326 ft MSL · USGS ground 311 ft · Δ 15 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 →
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.
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
60MD
AIX ID
aix:hp:XE6GV23A
Lat / Lng
38.99962, -77.09566
Elevation
326 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
2013/07
Last owner update
2020/02/20
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2013-04-10
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2013-AEA-436-NRA2013-05-09
Heliport · 1 ft AGL — Est the Walter Reed Nat'l Med Ctr at Bethesda H (VERY PRIVATE).\r\nNeeds FAA site # and local id -\r\nFATO approx 40x40\r\nTLOF approx 80x80 perimeter of pad 120x120. Ingress/egress aligned w/central letter \H\ is 320/140degrees. typical approach decent angle to pad 3 to 7 degrees. **Correct lat/long = N38 59 58.62 W 77 05 44.37
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
67/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 60 ft pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation326 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 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.
WALTER REED NTL MEDICAL CENTER, BETHESDA, MD (FAA 60MD). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:XE6GV23A. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:XE6GV23A.