Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field Map Print (ASE)

ASE KASE Aspen, Colorado

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Aspen'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 Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field (ASE), 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.

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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 Aspen'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.

Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field

ASE · Aspen, Colorado

39.2219° N · 106.8682° W
Field elevation 7,838 ft

Identifier

ASE

ICAO code

KASE

Field elevation

7,838ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

9°E

Runways

15/338,006 × 100 ft

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

Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field Runway Diagram Print

Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field works off a single runway, 15/33, measuring 8,006 by 100 feet with an asphalt surface, and the print hands that one strip the entire sheet. In the image it reads as a long dark diagonal falling from the upper left down to the lower right, with 15 numbered at the top end and 33 at the bottom. There is no crossing runway, no V, no second parallel strip. One line, held at its published angle, and everything else on the page arranged around it.

What keeps the composition from going quiet is the pavement on the east side. A partial length parallel taxiway runs alongside the runway, serving general aviation at the north end and the commercial terminal at the south end, and in the artwork it becomes a pale grey ribbon of loops, ramp edges and hangar blocks that shadows the dark runway for most of its length. The contrast is the whole design: a hard black rule against soft grey apron shapes, with a single small outbuilding sitting off on the west side for balance. At 7,838 feet, this is one of the higher fields you can put on a wall, and the elevation is printed in the corner block under the coordinates.

The history under that line is older than the pavement. Settlers took the site in 1881 with the Stapleton ranch, a private gravel airstrip opened there in 1946, and Pitkin County took control in 1956 and set about paving it. The field was renamed Sardy Field in 1958 for county commissioner Tom Sardy, who headed the paving project. The runway has been lengthened more than once and reached its current dimensions in 2011, which is the shape you see drawn here.

The terrain also explains the direction of traffic: because of the mountain range south of the runway, most operations land to the south on runway 15 and depart to the north on runway 33, so arrivals and departures fly toward each other. That single, committed axis is what makes the print work as graphic art rather than as a diagram of a busy field. It sits naturally beside other Colorado mountain airfields such as Eagle or Telluride, and it reads cleanly on its own above a desk in whichever colorway you choose.

Aspen (ASE) print, common questions

How many runways does Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field have?

One. Runway 15/33 is 8,006 feet long and 100 feet wide with an asphalt surface, and that single strip is what you see drawn diagonally across the print.

How high is the airport?

The field elevation is 7,838 feet, and that figure is printed in the corner block of the artwork along with the coordinates and the city line.

Where is ASE?

In Aspen, Colorado. It is a county-owned public-use airport about three miles northwest of the central business district of Aspen, in Pitkin County.

What does the code ASE refer to?

ASE is the identifier for Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field, the name the field has carried since 1958, when it was renamed for county commissioner Tom Sardy.

How accurate is the layout on this print?

The runway, the parallel taxiway and the apron outlines are plotted from published airport information, so proportions and orientation follow the published runway data. This is artwork for a wall rather than a navigation document, and fine details may be simplified or omitted. Runway markings, lighting and signage are the usual examples.

What formats does it come in, and does it work as a gift?

It is offered as a Fine Art Print, a Framed Fine Art Print, a Glossy Metal Print and a Digital Download, in a range of sizes. Physical pieces are made to order; the download is a file. It lands well with pilots who have flown the steep approach into Aspen, with skiers, and with anyone who knows the valley.