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BANNER ESTRELLA MEDICA CENTER

PHOENIX, AZ — Phoenix metro. Operational · Private use.

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For hospital and EMS teams

Banner Estrella Medical Center
Banner Estrella Medical Center · Trauma level IV · 214 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: none on record. Our check of the record: Corroborated (details below).
What has the FAA said about its airspace?
3 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.
Where else can aircraft land nearby?
Nearest airport weather station
GEU
Keeping the FAA record right
  1. See your official record in the FAA's Airport Data and Information Portal (ADIP).
  2. 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.
  3. 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

79/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 1037 ft MSL · USGS ground 1037 ft · Δ 0 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

CONDITIONALConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Clear
No obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file.
Geometry
Requires 40 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 60 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.
100 ft · eVTOL FATO60 ft
The recorded pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
60 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.

FAA compliance

Q1 · FAA registrationPASS
Active FAA NASR 5010 record.
Q2 · Airspace determinationON_FILE
OE3A archive: ASN 2014-AWP-403-NRA determined 2014-08-11
Q3 · State enforcementMODERATE
State has partial enforcement framework.
Q4 · NFPA 418PARTIAL
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
BE1
AIX ID
aix:hp:76WXTZAS
Lat / Lng
33.47903, -112.25678
Elevation
1037 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
2016/08

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations3

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2014-03-26
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2014-AWP-403-NRA
    2014-08-11
    Heliport · 0 ft AGL — This is an existing Heliport which the sponsor wants to be registered with the FAA. There is no construction planned for the heliport facility.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-AWP-161-NRA
    2003-11-14
    Other · 0 ft AGL — Revised Heliport location previously studied under 00-AWP-0216-NRA.\r\n\r\nHeliport will be a private owned private use facility.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2003-AWP-134-NRA
    2003-08-21
    Other · 0 ft AGL — Proposed private owned private use heliport.

Safety history (NTSB)2

Incident history

2 NTSB helicopter events within 3 nm since 2010 (2 incidents); most recent 2025-10-01.

  • INCIDENT1.4 nm
    2025-10-01
    AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC MK30 · Tolleson, AZ — NTSB CAROL
  • INCIDENT1.4 nm
    2025-10-01
    AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC MK30 · Tolleson, AZ — 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
79/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 60 ft

The 60 ft pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation1037 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 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:76WXTZAS · Methodology →
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BANNER ESTRELLA MEDICA CENTER, PHOENIX, AZ (FAA BE1). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:76WXTZAS. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:76WXTZAS.

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