AirIndex Research · FAA LID 8WA3

VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

RENTON, WA — Seattle metro. Operational · Private use.

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Data integrity

53/100
Self-reportedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 100 ft MSL · USGS ground 87 ft · Δ 13 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 127 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
Cross-source consensus
⚠ Sources conflict — pad is on a building, but FAA elevation reads ground level
Stale-low FAA elevation (the 6FD8 class) — never updated for the rooftop pad. Treat the recorded elevation as unreliable.

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 FATO118 ft
This pad already covers the eVTOL landing footprint as it stands.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
118 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 determinationUNKNOWN
FAA OE/AAA airspace determination data integration pending.
Q3 · State enforcementMODERATE
State has partial enforcement framework.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
8WA3
AIX ID
aix:hp:2QBKKEAP
Lat / Lng
47.44180, -122.21455
Elevation
100 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
118 × 118 ft
Surface type
ASPH
Surface condition
FAIR
Activation date
1976/03
Last owner update
2020/08/03

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations0

No FAA OEAAA determinations linked to this facility.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
53/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 87ftROOFTOP 214ftbldg ~127ftFAA FILED 100ft

The FAA record places this pad at 100 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 214 ft — a +114 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 118 ft

Footprint assessment available.

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation100 ft214 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions118 ft side (filed)118 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:2QBKKEAP · Methodology →
Cite this facility

VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, RENTON, WA (FAA 8WA3). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:2QBKKEAP. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:2QBKKEAP.

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