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DELL SETON MEDICAL CENTER

AUSTIN, TX — Austin metro. Operational · Private use.

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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 613 ft MSL · USGS ground 512 ft · Δ 101 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 65 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

InfeasibleConversion feasibility · obstruction screen
100 ft · eVTOL FATO43 ft
The recorded pad is 57 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
43 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 2015-ASW-1878-NRA determined 2016-09-30
Q3 · State enforcementLIMITED
State has limited enforcement of FAA standards.
Q4 · NFPA 418PARTIAL
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
68TX
AIX ID
aix:hp:H3R4NKHR
Lat / Lng
30.27578, -97.73419
Elevation
613 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
43 × 43 ft
Surface type
DECK
Activation date
2017/08
Last owner update
2025/06/02

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2015-03-25
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2015-ASW-1878-NRA
    2016-09-30
    Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Construct New Hospital Heliport replacing existing facility. Two metal helideck pads: one 43x43 and one 55x55
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
76/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 512ftROOFTOP 577ftbldg ~65ftFAA FILED 613ft

The FAA record places this pad at 613 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 577 ft — a -36 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 43 ft

The 43 ft pad is 57 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation613 ft577 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions43 ft side (filed)43 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:H3R4NKHR · Methodology →
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DELL SETON MEDICAL CENTER, AUSTIN, TX (FAA 68TX). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:H3R4NKHR. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:H3R4NKHR.

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