AirIndex Research · FAA LID 88FA

TAMPA HARD ROCK HELIPAD

TAMPA, FL — Tampa metro. Operational · Private use.

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Data integrity

64/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 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

InfeasibleConversion feasibility · obstruction screen
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.
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
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 lapses within 180 days — flag for re-filing.
Clearance posture: expires in 0d
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2025-02-02 · 1 in the last 24 months
  • OEDET-EBO-TMPexpires in 0dASN 2025-ASO-2437-OE
    2025-02-13
    AMUSEMENT_PARK_STRUCTURE · 177 ft AGL — Thunderbird swing tower ride
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2016-ASO-705-NRA
    2016-05-18
    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.

  • ACCIDENT1.7 nm
    2021-06-22
    BELL 407 · Tampa, FLNTSB CAROL
  • ACCIDENT1.7 nm
    2020-02-18
    Aerospatiale AS350 · Tampa, FLNTSB CAROL
  • ACCIDENT1.7 nm
    2019-01-29
    EUROCOPTER AS 350 · Tampa, FLNTSB 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
64/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 26ftROOFTOP 106ftbldg ~80ftFAA FILED 87ft

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
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 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
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:YMTXXR0F · Methodology →
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TAMPA HARD ROCK HELIPAD, TAMPA, FL (FAA 88FA). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:YMTXXR0F. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:YMTXXR0F.

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