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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Last inspection record: 1998/09/24
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 55 ft MSL · USGS ground 35 ft · Δ 20 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 33 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
Cross-source consensus
Single independent source — no corroboration available
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 46 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 54 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 46 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
54 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
88FD
AIX ID
aix:hp:SGVCG8EN
Lat / Lng
26.50529, -80.07050
Elevation
55 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
54 × 54 ft
Surface type
CONC
Last inspection
1998/09/24
Last owner update
2021/08/12
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations2
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2011-06-16
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2011-ASO-988-NRA2011-08-25
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Construct new helipad at Bethesda West Medical. Will require inspection. See attached documents for additional information.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2005-ASO-98-NRA2005-03-31
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — Heliport moved 220'. 98x98 FATO 54x54TLOF concrete rooftop. Requests inspection 2/23 or 24 please call Mr. Ken Larsen 402-399-4835 to arrange. This application was lost in the mail for some time. Please expedite if at all possible. Thanks
Safety history (NTSB)1
Fatal event history
1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident, 1 fatal); most recent 2026-03-23.
1 event with a fatality
ACCIDENTFATAL1.6 nm2026-03-23
ROBINSON HELICOPTER R44 · Boynton Beach, FL — NTSB 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
The FAA record places this pad at 55 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 68 ft — a +13 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 54 ft pad is 46 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation55 ft68 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions54 ft side (filed)54 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.
BETHESDA MEML HOSPITAL, BOYNTON BEACH, FL (FAA 88FD). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:SGVCG8EN. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:SGVCG8EN.