Scott AFB/MidAmerica St. Louis Airport Map Print (BLV)

BLV KBLV Belleville, Illinois

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your BLV 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.
Belleville'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 Scott AFB/MidAmerica St. Louis Airport (BLV), 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 Belleville'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.

Scott AFB/MidAmerica St. Louis

BLV · Belleville, Illinois

38.5452° N · 89.8352° W
Field elevation 459 ft

Identifier

BLV

ICAO code

KBLV

Field elevation

459ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

2°W

Runways

14L/32R10,000 × 150 ft

14R/32L8,006 × 150 ft

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

Scott AFB/MidAmerica St. Louis Airport Runway Diagram Print

Scott Air Force Base and MidAmerica St. Louis share one field, and the diagram shows that arrangement before you read a word of it. Two runways lie parallel on the same northwest to southeast axis, set so far apart that the middle of the sheet stays open: 14L/32R at 10,000 by 150 feet to the east, and 14R/32L at 8,006 by 150 feet to the west. Their southeast ends sit at roughly the same level and the longer eastern strip reaches further northwest, while a single long taxiway runs diagonally across the gap to join them, and the field's control tower was built midway between the two. Field elevation is 459 feet and magnetic variation is 2W. Ramps and buildings cluster off the southwest flank of the west runway and along the northeast side of the east one, so the print reads as two separate airports facing each other across an empty middle, which is very close to what this place is.

The military half came first by eighty years. Scott Field was established in 1917 as one of 32 Air Service training camps set up after the United States entered World War I, and the joint use arrangement dates from November 1997, when MidAmerica began operations on the same airfield. The civil side was built to relieve crowding at St. Louis Lambert International and spent years as a target: NBC Nightly News ran it under a 'Fleecing of America' segment, and Tom Brokaw called it a 'Gateway to Nowhere'. Supporters point the other way and credit the added runway with saving Scott Air Force Base from closure in the 2005 base realignment round.

Airlines came and went early on. Pan Am arrived on August 16, 2000 and by the spring of 2001 was using the field as a stop on a Boeing 727-200 route between Orlando Sanford and Gary; Great Plains Airlines began service late in 2003 with flights to Chicago Midway, Washington Dulles and Tulsa, then filed for bankruptcy in January 2004. Heavier work has stuck: Boeing moved the first MQ-25 Stingray test aircraft here by road from its plant at Lambert in late April 2019, and the aircraft made its first flight from this field on September 19, 2019. On the print, runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, and taxiways and apron edges are reduced to flat geometry over the ground tone you choose. It is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions, printed to order.

Belleville (BLV) print, common questions

How many runways does the Scott AFB and MidAmerica St. Louis field have?

Two, and they are parallel. Runway 14L/32R is 10,000 by 150 feet and runway 14R/32L is 8,006 by 150 feet, both running northwest to southeast.

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

Runway 14L/32R, at 10,000 feet. Field elevation is 459 feet above sea level, and that figure is set in the margin of the print with the coordinates.

Why do the two runways sit so far apart on the diagram?

Because they do on the ground. The eastern runway was added when MidAmerica was built alongside the existing base runway, with a long taxiway thrown across the gap to connect them and the control tower placed midway between the two. The print keeps that spacing rather than tightening it up.

Where is BLV and what is the field called?

BLV is the IATA code for the joint civil and military field at Belleville in St. Clair County, Illinois, known on the civil side as MidAmerica St. Louis Airport and on the military side as Scott Air Force Base. It lies 18 nautical miles east of downtown St. Louis, at roughly 38.55 north, 89.84 west.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the spacing between the two parallels 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 this work as a gift?

Several sizes and finishes, made to order, on a ground tone you choose at checkout. It suits anyone stationed at Scott, anyone who has flown out of the small terminal on the east side, and anyone who likes a layout with room to breathe.