Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 224 ft MSL · USGS ground 174 ft · Δ 51 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 41 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 →
The recorded pad is 56 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
44 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
Clear — no obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file
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.
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
CA82
AIX ID
aix:hp:6MZNF5T1
Lat / Lng
33.03708, -117.28508
Elevation
224 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
44 × 44 ft
Surface type
CONC
Surface condition
EXCELLENT
Activation date
2014/04
Last owner update
2025/10/24
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2012-06-25
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2012-AWP-1400-NRA2012-09-10
Heliport · 51 ft AGL — HELIPORT IN SUPPORT OF HOSPITAL. TO BE BUILT ON TOP OF CRITICAL CARE BLDG ON ROOFTOP DECK. NOTE IN LETTER FROM APPLICANTS CONSULTANT THAT THERE IS A PENETRATION OF THE EASTERN TRANSITIONAL SURFACE BY APPROX. 8' AT A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 57'. THEY ARE ASKING US TO NOTE IN OUR LETTER OF APPROVAL THAT THIS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED A HAZARD. PLEASE RESPOND ACCORDINGLY IF THIS DOES HAVE IMPACTS THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTING. YOU MAY CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE IF QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
54/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 224 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 214 ft — a -10 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 44 ft pad is 56 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation224 ft214 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions44 ft side (filed)44 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.
SCRIPPS MEML HOSPITAL, ENCINITAS, CA (FAA CA82). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:6MZNF5T1. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:6MZNF5T1.