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OPUS CENTER IRVINE

IRVINE, CA — Los Angeles 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 36 ft MSL · USGS ground 38 ft · Δ -2 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 181 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

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 50 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 50 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.
100 ft · eVTOL FATO50 ft
The recorded pad is 50 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
50 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 2005-AWP-705-NRA determined 2006-02-23
Q3 · State enforcementSTRONG
State has adopted FAA AC as enforceable.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
CA85
AIX ID
aix:hp:5ST2DNZ1
Lat / Lng
33.68361, -117.85333
Elevation
36 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
50 × 50 ft
Surface type
ASPH
Activation date
2000/02
Last owner update
2020/04/01

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations5

Airspace clearance
Airspace clearance on file is current.
Clearance posture: current (544d)
Nearby obstructions (OE/AAA-determined structures)
2 structures determined near the pad · tallest 140 ft AGL
Active construction (crane / in-progress) filed recently — obstruction environment is changing.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2026-08-10 · 2 in the last 24 months
  • OEDET-DNE-TMPcurrent (544d)ASN 2026-AWP-14638-OE
    2026-09-21
    CRANE$FIXED · 120 ft AGL — DD - 17838 Gillette Avenue, Irvine
  • OEDET-DNE-TMPcurrent (540d)ASN 2026-AWP-13501-OE
    2026-09-17
    CRANE$FIXED · 140 ft AGL — DD - 2485 McCabe Way, Irvine
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2005-AWP-705-NRA
    2006-02-23
    Heliport · 0 ft AGL — ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIVATE-USE HELIPORT
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1999-AWP-152-NRA
    1999-11-30
    Other · 0 ft AGL — ESTABLISHMENT OF A PRIVATE USE EMERGENCY HELIPORT. ATTACHMENTS ARE FORWARDED.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1999-AWP-73-NRA
    1999-10-07
    Other · 0 ft AGL — HELIPORT ESTABLISHMENT HARD COPIES FORWARDED FS (RONNIE) VERBALY CONCURRED. BT.7/28/99.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
53/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 38ftROOFTOP 219ftbldg ~181ftFAA FILED 36ft

The FAA record places this pad at 36 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 219 ft — a +183 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 50 ft

The 50 ft pad is 50 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation36 ft219 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions50 ft side (filed)50 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:5ST2DNZ1 · Methodology →
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