Columbia Regional Airport Map Print (COU)

COU KCOU Columbia, Missouri

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your COU 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.
Columbia'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 Columbia Regional Airport (COU), 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 Columbia'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.

Columbia Regional

COU · Columbia, Missouri

38.8177° N · 92.2178° W
Field elevation 889 ft

Identifier

COU

ICAO code

KCOU

Field elevation

889ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

0°E

Runways

02/207,401 × 150 ft

13/315,500 × 100 ft

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

Columbia Regional Airport Runway Diagram Print

Columbia Regional Airport works two runways that cross, and the print is built on where they meet. Runway 02/20 is 7,401 by 150 feet of concrete and runs close to north and south down almost the full height of the frame. Runway 13/31, 5,500 by 100 feet of concrete as well, cuts across it from northwest to southeast, and the crossing lands high in the composition, up near the 20 threshold rather than at midfield. Magnetic variation here is 0E, so the plotted headings sit about where true north would put them, and field elevation is 889 feet above sea level. A parallel taxiway follows the long runway down its western side, with the terminal buildings and apron gathered along that same side below the crossing.

The field is about 12 miles southeast of Columbia in Boone County, and it replaced an older municipal airport closer to town. That first field was founded in 1928 on US Highway 40 at the western edge of the city, on ground leased from the Allton Brothers, and improvements made with Civil Aeronautics Administration help let it serve as an emergency landing field for the airway between Kansas City and St. Louis. By the early 1960s the city was weighing a single regional terminal for both Columbia and Jefferson City. Consulting engineers looked at twenty three possible sites, narrowed the list to five, and in October 1963 recommended the Highway H ground. A bond election passed in January 1964, construction began in August 1967, the main runway was dedicated in November 1968, and the airport opened that December.

Airline flying here has changed hands often. Trans World Express flew Jetstream 41s to St. Louis until 2001, and the route passed through American Connection, US Airways Express, Northwest Airlink and Delta Connection before Delta ended its Columbia flights in February 2013. American Airlines service to Chicago O'Hare and Dallas Fort Worth began in 2013, the same month Delta left, United Airlines added a daily Denver flight in August 2017, and in 2019 the main runway was lengthened and a crosswind runway was added, which is the two runway layout this diagram is drawn from. A terminal with three jetways opened in October 2022.

As art the layout is left to read plainly. 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. The long diagonal and the shorter one that cuts it give the sheet an off center pivot point, with the built-up side of the field weighted low and west. This is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions rather than a navigation document, printed to order at a size that reads from across a room and rewards standing close.

Columbia (COU) print, common questions

How many runways does Columbia Regional Airport have?

Two. Runway 02/20 is 7,401 by 150 feet of concrete and runway 13/31 is 5,500 by 100 feet of concrete. They cross near the north end of the longer runway, which is why the intersection on the print sits well above the middle of the sheet.

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

The longest is runway 02/20 at 7,401 feet. Field elevation is 889 feet above sea level, and that figure is set in the margin of the print alongside the coordinates.

What does COU stand for and where is the airport?

COU is the IATA code for Columbia Regional Airport, about 12 miles southeast of Columbia in Boone County, Missouri, at roughly 38.82 north, 92.22 west. It was planned in the 1960s as a regional terminal for both Columbia and Jefferson City.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the angle between the two 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 available, and does this make a good gift?

Each print is made to order in several sizes and finishes, on the ground tone you pick at checkout. It suits anyone who has connected through Boone County on the way to Mid Missouri, flown a team charter into the field, or spent time around the university town it serves.