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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 87 ft MSL · USGS ground 26 ft · Δ 61 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 80 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
INFEASIBLE WITHOUT REMEDIATIONConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Severe
High obstacle within 0.5 nm conflicts with the expanded footprint and the 8:1 approach surface.
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
Infeasible without remediation
A high obstacle conflicts with the expanded footprint. Remediation or a different site.
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
OE/AAA ASN 2025-ASO-2437-OE: DET-EBO-TMP
Q3 · State enforcementSTRONG
State has adopted FAA AC as enforceable.
Q4 · NFPA 418ADOPTED
Jurisdiction has adopted NFPA 418 in fire/building code.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
88FA
AIX ID
aix:hp:YMTXXR0F
Lat / Lng
27.99552, -82.37015
Elevation
87 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
55 × 55 ft
Surface type
CONC
Surface condition
EXCELLENT
Activation date
2016/08
Last owner update
2022/06/03
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations2
Airspace clearance
Airspace clearance on file has lapsed — a re-filing may be needed for new/continued operations. Does not by itself reclassify the existing structure as a hazard.
Clearance posture: expired 45d ago
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2025-02-02 · 1 in the last 24 months
AMUSEMENT_PARK_STRUCTURE · 177 ft AGL — Thunderbird swing tower ride
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2016-ASO-705-NRA2016-05-18
Heliport · 57 ft AGL — ESTABLISH: New rooftop heliport at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa FL. The helipad will be constructed atop the existing parking garage.
Safety history (NTSB)3
Accident history
3 NTSB helicopter events within 3 nm since 2010 (3 accidents); most recent 2021-06-22.
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
64/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 87 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 106 ft — a +19 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 55 ft pad is 45 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation87 ft106 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions55 ft side (filed)55 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.