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PRIVATE H/C PAD

AUBURN, WA. Operational · Private use.

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Data integrity

76/100
CorroboratedData Integrity Index
Independent inspection
Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 98 ft MSL · USGS ground 56 ft · Δ 42 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 30 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
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 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.
100 ft · eVTOL FATO60 ft
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 determinationON_FILE
OE/AAA ASN 2026-ANM-153-NRA: DET-to-Prop
Q3 · State enforcementMODERATE
State has partial enforcement framework.
Q4 · NFPA 418UNKNOWN
NFPA 418 adoption status not yet assessed for this jurisdiction.

FAA facility data

FAA LID
WA28
AIX ID
aix:hp:WAFGE6KB
Lat / Lng
47.33288, -122.22282
Elevation
98 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
60 × 60 ft
Surface type
ASPH-TRTD
Surface condition
GOOD
Activation date
1992/01
Last owner update
2020/08/14

FAA OEAAA airspace determinations5

Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2026-04-13 · 4 in the last 24 months
  • NRADET-to-PropASN 2026-ANM-1114-NRA
    2026-05-20
    CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN - Miscellaneous · 1 ft AGL — CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN Miscellaneous
  • NRADET-to-PropASN 2026-ANM-581-NRA
    2026-05-19
    CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN - Miscellaneous · 1 ft AGL — CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN Miscellaneous
  • NRADET-to-PropASN 2026-ANM-153-NRA
    2026-03-17
    CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN - Miscellaneous · 1 ft AGL — CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN Miscellaneous
  • NRADET-to-PropASN 2024-ANM-4950-NRA
    2025-01-07
    CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN - Miscellaneous · 1 ft AGL — CONSTR. SAFETY PLAN Miscellaneous
  • NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2006-ANM-67-NRA
    2006-03-22
    Heliport · 0 ft AGL — 7480 - relocation of existing heliport.

Safety history (NTSB)1

Accident history

1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident); most recent 2022-06-18.

  • ACCIDENT0.6 nm
    2022-06-18
    ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY R44 II · Auburn, WANTSB 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
76/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
GROUND 56ftROOFTOP 86ftbldg ~30ftFAA FILED 98ft

The FAA record places this pad at 98 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 86 ft — a -12 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.

eVTOL footprint
FATO 100 ft reqHTLOF 60 ft

The 60 ft pad is 40 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).

SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation98 ft86 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions60 ft side (filed)60 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:WAFGE6KB · Methodology →
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PRIVATE H/C PAD, AUBURN, WA (FAA WA28). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:WAFGE6KB. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:WAFGE6KB.

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