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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
⚠ Location-suspect — recorded coordinates may be mislocated
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 269 ft MSL · USGS ground 14 ft · Δ 255 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Ground-level — no building footprint at the coordinate
Cross-source consensus
⚠ Sources conflict — FAA elevation sits above terrain, but no building is at the coordinate
Either a freestanding / tower pad or a mislocated coordinate — independent verification recommended.
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.
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.
FAA facility data
FAA LID
VA88
AIX ID
aix:hp:ZJ4BJPFA
Lat / Lng
36.86169, -76.30480
Elevation
269 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
CONC
Activation date
1980/05
Last owner update
2026/01/05
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2017-12-12
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2017-AEA-2683-NRA2018-02-08
Heliport · 259 ft AGL — Construct two new helipads on a rooftop approximately 320 feet to the south east of the current ground helipad. The new helipads will have the following coordinates:\r\n36 51 41.41N 76 18 13.43W and 36 51 42.21N 76 18 12.72W. Both will have AGL of 259 feet. The final configuration for LocId VA88 will have the three Helipads operational with the ground base intended to be operational mostly under emergency conditions.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
60/100
DATA INTEGRITY
eVTOL footprint
The 60 ft pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation269 ftnot cross-checked
Structurenot on recordGround-level
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 ft side · measured
Coordinate integrityas filed⚠ location-suspect
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.
SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL, NORFOLK, VA (FAA VA88). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:ZJ4BJPFA. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:ZJ4BJPFA.