Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 850 ft MSL · USGS ground 839 ft · Δ 12 ft
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 33 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 55 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
45 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
XA29
AIX ID
aix:hp:YPBWK50F
Lat / Lng
29.48947, -98.54758
Elevation
850 ft MSL
Pad dimensions
45 × 45 ft
Surface type
MATS
Activation date
2004/07
Last owner update
2020/02/28
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations1
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2004-01-08
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2004-ASW-15-NRA2004-03-30
Other · 0 ft AGL — Establish new private-use hospital heliport
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
63/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 850 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 872 ft — a +22 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 45 ft pad is 55 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation850 ft872 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions45 ft side (filed)45 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.
HEART HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO, SAN ANTONIO, TX (FAA XA29). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:YPBWK50F. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:YPBWK50F.