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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 3701 ft MSL · USGS ground 3697 ft · Δ 4 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
On a building footprint — height not tagged in the source
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 40 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 60 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 40 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
60 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 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
TA41
AIX ID
aix:hp:84WAPH5K
Lat / Lng
31.77164, -106.43545
Elevation
3701 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
ASPH
Activation date
1989/06
Last owner update
2022/02/03
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations0
No FAA OEAAA determinations linked to this facility.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
53/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 60 ft pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation3701 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordOn a building
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 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.
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, EL PASO, TX (FAA TA41). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:84WAPH5K. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:84WAPH5K.