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Phoenix Children'S Hospital · Trauma level I · 391 beds
Is the FAA record right?
FAA status: Open. Last FAA inspection: none on record (common for private-use pads, which the FAA does not routinely inspect). Last update from the owner: 2024/01/17. Our check of the record: Corroborated (details below).
What has the FAA said about its airspace?
2 FAA airspace determinations are linked to this site; the airspace finding on file is on_file. The list is below.
What is being built nearby?
No FAA obstruction filings (cranes, buildings, towers) within 1 nm in the last 12 months.
To correct it, the facility manager signs in to ADIP and uses Airport Master Record, Update Facility Data (Airport/Heliport). The paper private-use form 5010-2 was retired in July 2024.
Building, changing, reopening or closing a landing site needs notice to the FAA on Form 7480-1 (14 CFR Part 157).
AirIndex compiles public FAA, federal and hospital records and checks them against each other. It is not a source for navigation or flight planning; use official FAA sources and your operator's procedures. See something wrong? Report a correction (how corrections work).
Data integrity
70/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 1312.5 ft MSL · USGS ground 1123 ft · Δ 190 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 204 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 54 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 46 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 54 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
46 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.
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
AZ99
AIX ID
aix:hp:4QKZWCG8
Lat / Lng
33.47856, -112.04150
Elevation
1312.5 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
46 × 46 ft
Surface type
ROOF-TOP
Activation date
2003/08
Last owner update
2024/01/17
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations2
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2007-11-06
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2007-AWP-856-NRA2009-02-18
Heliport · 0 ft AGL — ESTABLISH A PRIVATE USE HELIPORT. THIS AIRSPACE STUDY FOR PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL WAS CLOSED BACK IN JULY 2001 WITHOUT AN FAA DETERMINATION (SEE PRIOR AIRSPACE STUDY 2001-AWP-93-NRA). ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS NEW STUDY SHOULD BE REFERRED TO JASON HALE HKS/PROJECT COORDINATOR AT 214-969-3218.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2001-AWP-93-NRA2001-07-13
Other · 54 ft AGL — Proposed Heliport for Phoenix Childrens Hospital
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
70/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 1312.5 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 1326 ft — a +13.5 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 46 ft pad is 54 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation1312.5 ft1326 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions46 ft side (filed)46 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.
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, PHOENIX, AZ (FAA AZ99). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:4QKZWCG8. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:4QKZWCG8.