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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 3280 ft MSL · USGS ground 3227 ft · Δ 53 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 37 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
CONDITIONALConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Clear
No obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file.
Geometry
Requires 80 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 20 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 80 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
20 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.
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
74TS
AIX ID
aix:hp:6K42EWGQ
Lat / Lng
33.57379, -101.89900
Elevation
3280 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
20 × 20 ft
Surface type
ASPH
Activation date
1987/04
Last owner update
1994/08/09
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations2
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2006-12-05
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2006-ASW-1067-NRA2007-02-15
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Change of ownership change of name and relocation of helipad.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2005-ASW-720-NRA2006-01-24
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Notice of landing area proposal.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
54/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 3280 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 3264 ft — a -16 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 20 ft pad is 80 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation3280 ft3264 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions20 ft side (filed)20 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.
ST MARY OF THE PLAINS HOSPITAL, LUBBOCK, TX (FAA 74TS). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:6K42EWGQ. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:6K42EWGQ.