Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 109 ft MSL · USGS ground 98 ft · Δ 11 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 28 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 →
The recorded pad is 80 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
20 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.
Obstruction clearance
Clear — no obstructions within 0.5 nm on the FAA obstacle file
Measured against FAA pad geometry and federal FATO sizing (EB-105). A dimensional pre-screen — site-level validation required, and independent of the underwriting risk score.
IBC references NFPA 418 for rooftop facilities. Standalone fire code reference not confirmed.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
TE69
AIX ID
aix:hp:06W8Z0GJ
Lat / Lng
29.57627, -95.77156
Elevation
109 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
20 × 20 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
2000/06
Last owner update
2017/02/07
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations3
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 1998-07-02
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1998-ASW-5524-NRA1998-10-07
Other · 0 ft AGL — RESTUDY HELIPAD DUE TO CHANGES IN INGRESS AND EGRESS ROUTESRESTUDY HELIPADPREVIOUSLY STUDIED UNDER 97-ASW-5521-NRA AND 97-ASW-5568-NRA
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1997-ASW-5521-NRA1998-10-05
Other · 0 ft AGL — RELOCATION OF EXISTING HOSPITAL HELIPAD RELOCATION EXIST PADTHIS IS A RELOCATION OF EXISTING HELIPAD - NOTED ON SUBMITTAL AS
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 1997-ASW-5568-NRA1998-10-05
Other · 0 ft AGL — REEVALUATE PROPOSAL DUE TO ADDITION OF LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPINGREEVAL HELIPAD RELOCATIONPROPOSAL PREVIOUSLY STUDIED UNDER 97-ASW-5521-NRA
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
69/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 109 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 126 ft — a +17 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 20 ft pad is 80 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation109 ft126 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions20 ft side (filed)20 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.
OAK BEND MEDICAL CENTER, RICHMOND, TX (FAA TE69). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:06W8Z0GJ. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:06W8Z0GJ.