FORT DETRICK (FREDERICK), MD. Operational · Private use.
OperationalPrivate useMilitary (Army)
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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 350 ft MSL · USGS ground 360 ft · Δ -10 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
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 20 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 80 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 20 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
80 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 determinationUNKNOWN
FAA OE/AAA airspace determination data integration pending.
Q3 · State enforcementUNKNOWN
State enforcement posture not yet assessed.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
MD32
AIX ID
aix:hp:4RWJTDPY
Lat / Lng
39.43626, -77.42066
Elevation
350 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
80 × 80 ft
Surface type
ASPH
Last owner update
1977/02/14
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
Clearance on file with no expiration date recorded.
1 structure determined near the pad · tallest 145 ft AGL
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2026-06-18 · 1 in the last 24 months
OEDET-EBOno expiry on recordASN 2026-AEA-7327-OE2026-08-27
TOWER · 145 ft AGL — Ft Detrick Ditto
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
57/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 80 ft pad is 20 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation350 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions80 ft side (filed)80 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.
FORT DETRICK HELIPAD, FORT DETRICK (FREDERICK), MD (FAA MD32). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:4RWJTDPY. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:4RWJTDPY.