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LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL/MUHLENBERG

BETHLEHEM, PA. Operational · Private use.

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Data integrity

79/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 372 ft MSL · USGS ground 367 ft · Δ 5 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

UNVERIFIEDConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
No data
No FAA obstacle data on file for this state. Clearance unverified.
Geometry
Requires 45 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 55 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
Unverified
No obstruction data on file. The dimensional gap applies; clearance is unverified.
100 ft · eVTOL FATO55 ft
The recorded pad is 45 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
55 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 2025-AEA-3794-NRA determined 2025-09-15
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
63PA
AIX ID
aix:hp:1WR57BQ4
Lat / Lng
40.64556, -75.40725
Elevation
372 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
55 × 55 ft
Surface type
ROOF-TOP
Activation date
2021/07

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations5

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2025-08-07 · 2 in the last 24 months
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2025-AEA-3794-NRA
    2025-09-15
    Form 7480 · 55 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2025-ESA-439-LAP
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2024-AEA-6408-NRA
    2025-01-22
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2024-ESA-338-LAP
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2020-AEA-2014-NRA
    2021-07-07
    Heliport · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2020-ESA-173-LAP. Establish/Construct a new Heliport.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2006-AEA-185-NRA
    2006-05-04
    Heliport · 1 ft AGL — private use heliport-ck treeline RELOCATE HELLIPORT\r\n NEW LAT LONG: 40.38.56\r\n 75.24.45
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-AEA-284-NRA
    2004-06-29
    Other · 1 ft AGL — deactivating heliport pvt/pvt

Safety history (NTSB)2

Accident history

2 NTSB helicopter events within 3 nm since 2010 (2 accidents); most recent 2019-08-11.

1 with serious injury

  • ACCIDENT1.6 nm
    2019-08-11
    Schweizer 269C · Allentown, PA — NTSB CAROL
  • ACCIDENT1.6 nm
    2014-06-17
    SCHWEIZER 269C-1 · Allentown, PA — NTSB CAROL

NTSB helicopter accidents & incidents geocoded within 3 nm of this pad and attributed to the nearest facility — proximity, not a determination that an event occurred at this site. Source: NTSB aviation accident database.

Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
79/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 55 ft

The 55 ft pad is 45 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation372 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions55 ft side (filed)55 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:1WR57BQ4 · Methodology →
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LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL/MUHLENBERG, BETHLEHEM, PA (FAA 63PA). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:1WR57BQ4. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:1WR57BQ4.

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