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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 61 ft MSL · USGS ground 47 ft · Δ 14 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
On a building footprint — height not tagged in the source
Building height ≈ 20 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 57 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 43 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 57 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
43 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
FD45
AIX ID
aix:hp:1ADRRR7V
Lat / Lng
30.45514, -86.63267
Elevation
61 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
43 × 50 ft
Surface type
MATS
Surface condition
FAIR
Activation date
1985/10
Last owner update
2022/02/10
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2017-08-28
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-ASO-3725-NRA2017-11-22
Form 7480 · 15 ft AGL — Proposal for the relocation of existing helipad H1 at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center (FD45) in Fort Walton Beach FL Okaloosa County. The proposed elevated helipad will have 15 perimeter lights and a safety net (TLOF: 50'x50'; FATO: 66.5'D). No IFR procedures are anticipated. The existing ground level helipad will be deactivated.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
63/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 43 ft pad is 57 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation61 ft66 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordOn a building
Pad dimensions43 ft side (filed)43 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.
HCA FLORIDA FORT WALTON-DESTIN HOSPITAL, FORT WALTON BEACH, FL (FAA FD45). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:1ADRRR7V. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:1ADRRR7V.