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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 18 ft MSL · USGS ground 17 ft · Δ 2 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
CONDITIONALConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Clear
No obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file.
Geometry
Requires 60 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 40 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 60 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
40 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
67FD
AIX ID
aix:hp:G1VC7MW7
Lat / Lng
26.54364, -81.84881
Elevation
18 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
40 × 40 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
1992/11
Last owner update
2024/11/19
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations4
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2020-03-17
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2020-ASO-1415-NRA2020-03-18
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2019-ESA-99-LAP... This aeronautical case serves as an update to prior study case 2019-ASO-6351-NRA to accurately document FAA Flight Standards comments.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2018-ASO-3928-NRA2018-10-30
Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2018-ESA-43-LAP: Relocate Helipad H1 at Gulf Coast Medical Center (3FA4) in Fort Myers FL. No IFR procedures anticipated.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2009-ASO-37-NRA2009-03-19
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — This is a new permanent location for the heliport at Gulf Coast Medical Center. The new heliport has already been constructed. See attached documents.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2005-ASO-717-NRA2006-03-03
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Relocate existing hospital helipad. FATO 100x90 = 9000sf/TLOF 40x40 = 1600sf/Surface - concrete
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
57/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 40 ft pad is 60 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation18 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions40 ft side (filed)40 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.
GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER, FORT MYERS, FL (FAA 67FD). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:G1VC7MW7. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:G1VC7MW7.