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GALVESTON HELICOPTER

GALVESTON, TX. Operational · Private use.

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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 7 ft MSL · USGS ground 16 ft · Δ -9 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 64 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 36 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 FATO36 ft
The recorded pad is 64 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
36 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 2023-ASW-6206-NRA determined 2023-09-14
Q3 · State enforcementLIMITED
State has limited enforcement of FAA standards.
Q4 · NFPA 418PARTIAL
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
TA03
AIX ID
aix:hp:FFBJJGGS
Lat / Lng
29.30447, -94.77146
Elevation
7 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
36 × 36 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
2023/09

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations5

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2023-09-14
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2023-ASW-6206-NRA
    2023-09-14
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2023-CSA-296-LAP\r\nDummy LAP to submit H1 to ADT. Location determined under Prior Study.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2023-ASW-6207-NRA
    2023-09-14
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2023-CSA-298-LAP\r\nDummy LAP to submit H3 to ADT. Location determined under Prior Study.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2023-ASW-3489-NRA
    2023-08-18
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2023-CSA-95-LAP\r\nHeliport will have 3 helipads.\r\nThis study is H1 the western pad.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2023-ASW-3490-NRA
    2023-08-18
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2023-CSA-95-LAP\r\nHeliport will have 3 helipads.\r\nThis study is H3 the eastern pad.
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2023-ASW-3488-NRA
    2023-08-18
    Form 7480 · 0 ft AGL — LAP ASN # 2023-CSA-95-LAP\r\nHeliport will have 3 helipads.\r\nThis study is H2 the center pad.

Safety history (NTSB)1

Accident history

1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident); most recent 2024-12-31.

  • ACCIDENT0.0 nm
    2024-12-31
    ROBINSON HELICOPTER R44 · Galveston, TX — 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 36 ft

The 36 ft pad is 64 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation7 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions36 ft side (filed)36 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:FFBJJGGS · Methodology →
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