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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 11 ft MSL · USGS ground 16 ft · Δ -5 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Ground-level — no building footprint at the coordinate
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 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
Infeasible without remediation
A high obstacle conflicts with the expanded footprint. Remediation or a different site.
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
9FA2
AIX ID
aix:hp:9D4GM78C
Lat / Lng
26.72373, -80.67197
Elevation
11 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
54 × 54 ft
Surface type
CONC
Surface condition
GOOD
Activation date
2011/04
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 2009-11-24
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2009-ASO-1481-NRA2010-03-22
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — This study is for the deactivation of 2FL2. Please see attached documentation.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2007-ASO-591-NRA2007-12-05
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — New Heliport Construction:\r\n\r\nOther Landing Areas:\r\nPBSO-West COunty Jail (2FL2): E 0.41nm.\r\nBelle Glade Airport (X10): SE - 1.63 nm.\r\nPalm Beach CO Glades (PHK): N - 3.84nm.\r\n\r\nObstructions:\r\nHospital Bldg. - Height:45' E 81'.\r\nCentral Energy Plant - Height: 25' E 269'.\r\nFPL Power Pole and Line - Height: ~45' E 1154'.\r\n\r\nOther Considerations:\r\nBelle Glade Correction Institute: S ~500'.\r\n\r\nHeliport Dimensions:\r\nFATO: 98'.\r\nTLOF: 54'.\r\nIngress/Egress: 270/270.\r\nSurface: Concrete.\r\n\r\nHard copies will follow via mail.
Safety history (NTSB)1
Accident history
1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident); most recent 2021-02-04.
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
67/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 54 ft pad is 46 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation11 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
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.
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTER, BELLE GLADE, FL (FAA 9FA2). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:9D4GM78C. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:9D4GM78C.