Alliance Municipal Airport Map Print (AIA)

AIA KAIA Alliance, Nebraska

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your AIA artwork at 300 dpi, matched to your selected physical print size. Print a copy for your own space or use it as wallpaper. Save it within 30 days of receiving the email link; the file is yours to keep for personal use.

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Alliance's runways and taxiways, composed as art for anyone who has spent time at the field.
Seven colorways to suit the room. A considered gift for pilots, crew, and frequent flyers.

Description

A runway diagram map print of Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA), made from the airport's own layout for the place it holds in your life. Choose your colorway and your format: a fine art giclée print on cotton paper, a framed fine art print, a glossy metal print or a digital download.

Your fine art print is made to order with pigment inks on heavyweight, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, a 330 gsm sheet with a high color gamut and deep black density. The acid-free, archival-grade paper has a smooth matte surface. Supplied unframed, ready for your own frame.

Shipping and Returns

Physical prints are made to order in 2 to 3 business days; shipping time is added on top and varies by your location and the method you choose. Standard shipping is free across the US. Orders containing only paper prints ship flat, though paper may retain a slight curl; orders with framed or metal pieces ship in separate boxes. Digital downloads are delivered by email, so there is nothing to ship.

Physical products have a 30-day money-back guarantee. Contact us within 30 days of delivery to request a refund; we may require a return before issuing it.

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Materials

Fine Art Print: pigment giclée printing on heavyweight 330 gsm (17 mil), 100% cotton Hot Press paper, on regularly calibrated giclée printers. The paper is acid-free and archival-grade, with a smooth matte surface and the high color gamut and black density that let a dark ground and fine linework keep their depth. Supplied unframed, with no added white margin, ready for your own frame.

Dimensions

Fine Art Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches.

Made like something you keep.

The field itself

This is Alliance's own layout, the way its runways run and the taxiways thread between them, composed into a print you will want to look at every day. Not a stock template with a new name on it.

Museum-quality cotton paper

Heavyweight 330 gsm, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, acid-free and archival-grade. Its high color gamut and black density give the runways real depth, and pigment inks keep the fine detail crisp on a smooth matte surface.

Solid wood framing or glossy metal

Frame it in 1.25 inch solid wood, black, white or natural oak, with the white beveled mat, optical-grade clear acrylic and hanging wire included. Or choose glossy metal: dye sublimation into aluminum, floated about 3/4 inch off the wall on a hidden mount.

Alliance Municipal

AIA · Alliance, Nebraska

42.0532° N · 102.8037° W
Field elevation 3,931 ft

Identifier

AIA

ICAO code

KAIA

Field elevation

3,931ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

7°E

Runways

12/309,203 × 150 ft

17/356,311 × 75 ft

08/266,190 × 75 ft

Composed from published airport information and available field depictions as original wall art. Learn how AirportPrints maps take shape.

Alliance Municipal Airport Runway Diagram Print

Alliance Municipal Airport has three asphalt runways and they lay out as a triangle, which is what makes this diagram unusual to look at. Runway 8/26, 6,190 by 75 feet, lies flat across the top of the sheet. Runway 17/35, 6,311 by 75 feet, drops down the right hand side. Runway 12/30, the long one at 9,203 by 150 feet, cuts from the top left corner all the way down to the bottom right, where its 30 end and the 35 end arrive at the same corner. The figure is not quite closed at the top right, where the 26 end stops just short of 17/35 and a taxiway carries the line across. The result is a hard geometric figure with a large empty middle, and the print is mostly that shape. Elevation is 3,931 feet on the high plains of Box Butte County, and the magnetic variation is 7E.

The triangle is a wartime plan. The field was built by the Army Air Forces between the summer of 1942 and August 1943 as one of eleven training airfields in Nebraska, on a 4,205 acre site bordered by low rolling sandhills to the east and open plain on the other three sides, with Snake Creek running through the south end. It was laid out for paratroops and air commandos, who needed long runways so C-47 Skytrains could tow CG-4 Waco gliders off the ground, and on August 22, 1943 a crowd of 65,000 turned out for the dedication of Alliance Army Airfield. At its height the area held as many as 14,000 paratroops, the cantonment ran to 775 buildings, and the housing thrown up for the influx at the east end of town earned the name Chimney Town for its rows of rooftop chimneys. Second Air Force borrowed the field in the fall of 1944 to train B-29 crews, the Army deactivated it on October 31, 1945, and the transfer of land and buildings to the city was finally settled on July 16, 1953.

That is why a town of this size has 9,203 feet of main runway to draw. The print keeps the wartime figure and lets the empty ground inside it do the work: runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, and taxiways, apron edges and the row of buildings along the north side are reduced to flat geometry over the ground tone you choose. Western DC-3s flew into Alliance from the 1940s, Frontier replaced Western in 1959, and the last of its Twin Otter flights ended in 1980, so this 3,500 acre field carried airline passengers on and off for four decades. It is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions, printed to order for pilots, for glider and airborne history readers, and for anyone from Box Butte County. On a wall of Nebraska fields it sits well beside Lincoln and Omaha.

Alliance (AIA) print, common questions

How many runways does Alliance Municipal Airport have?

Three, all asphalt, and they form a triangle: 12/30 at 9,203 by 150 feet, 17/35 at 6,311 by 75 feet, and 8/26 at 6,190 by 75 feet. On the print the long runway runs corner to corner while the other two make the top and right sides of the figure.

What is the longest runway at AIA, and how high is the field?

Runway 12/30 is the longest at 9,203 feet. Field elevation is 3,931 feet above sea level, which is high plains country, and that figure is printed in the margin.

Where is AIA and what does the code stand for?

AIA is the IATA code for Alliance Municipal Airport, in Box Butte County, Nebraska, three miles southeast of the city of Alliance, which owns it, at roughly 42.05 north, 102.80 west.

Why does a small Nebraska town have a runway this long?

Because the airport was Alliance Army Airfield. The Army Air Forces built it between 1942 and 1943 to train paratroops and glider crews, work that needed long runways for C-47s towing Waco gliders, and the city took over the land and buildings in 1953.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the triangular relationship between the three runways follow published airport information for the field. It is original wall art, not a chart: fine details may be simplified or omitted, including minor taxiway markings, signage and small structures, and it is not for navigation.

What sizes are there, and does it work as a gift?

Every one is made to order in several sizes and finishes, on a ground tone you pick at checkout. The triangle reads clearly even at the smaller sizes, which makes it a good gift for someone with a link to the airfield or to the airborne units that trained there.