David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport Map Print (DWH)

DWH KDWH Houston, Texas

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Houston'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 David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), 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 Houston'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.

David Wayne Hooks Memorial

DWH · Houston, Texas

30.0618° N · 95.5528° W
Field elevation 152 ft

Identifier

DWH

ICAO code

KDWH

Field elevation

152ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

5°E

Runways

17R/35L7,009 × 100 ft

17L/35R3,500 × 35 ft

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

David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport Runway Diagram Print

David Wayne Hooks Memorial draws as two parallel strips, both running nearly north to south down the sheet. The long one is 17R/35L, 7,009 by 100 ft of asphalt, labeled 17R at its north end and 35L at its south end, and it carries the whole vertical length of the composition. The second strip, 17L/35R at 3,500 by 35 ft, sits just east of it and only along the southern half of the field, a thin dark line beside a thick one. Everything else on the page is support: a long taxiway spine, a broad apron near the north end, and dense rows of hangars packed down the east side. Field elevation is 152 ft, set in small type under the identifier. The print does not draw the seaplane landing lane 17W/35W, since unpaved and water surfaces are left off.

The field sits near Tomball in unincorporated Harris County, about 23 miles northwest of the central business district of Houston. It began when Charles Hooks built a runway for his own use, a hobby that turned into a business and then into a terminal building, first opened to the public in the 1960s. The name came later: Hooks' son David was killed flying a small plane shortly after the airport opened, and the field, then called Houston Northwest Airport, was renamed in his memory. In 2022 the airport recorded 152,198 aircraft operations, an average of 417 per day, and that traffic is exactly what those hangar rows on the east side exist to hold.

As art, the appeal here is the asymmetry. Two parallel lines would be static on their own, but the short strip stops partway up, the hangar blocks crowd one flank while the west half stays almost empty, and the whole arrangement leans a few degrees off vertical. It reads as a tall, quiet composition with one hard black stroke through it, which is why it hangs well in a narrow space: a stairwell, a hallway, the wall beside a desk. Pilots who trained here or kept something in one of those rows will recognize the shape before they read the letters. A B-17G Flying Fortress called 'Texas Raiders' used the field as a base before moving on to Conroe in 2017. The colorway you choose changes the mood more than the geometry, which stays put.

Houston (DWH) print, common questions

How many runways does DWH have, and how long are they?

Two paved runways, both shown on the print. 17R/35L is 7,009 by 100 ft, and 17L/35R is 3,500 by 35 ft. Both are asphalt, and both run nearly north to south, parallel to each other.

Where is David Wayne Hooks Memorial, and what is the field elevation?

It is in the Houston area of Texas, near Tomball in unincorporated Harris County, roughly 23 miles northwest of the central business district. Field elevation is 152 ft, printed under the identifier at the bottom of the sheet.

What does DWH mean on the print?

DWH is the airport's identifier, the short code set in large type at the lower right. The airport itself is named for David Wayne Hooks, the son of founder Charles Hooks, who was killed in a small plane crash shortly after the field opened.

How closely does the print follow the published layout?

Runway positions, orientations and relative proportions are plotted from published airport information, including the published lengths and widths of both strips. Fine details are simplified or omitted: taxiway edges, markings, lighting and smaller structures are generalized, and unpaved and water surfaces are not drawn at all. It is wall art, not a navigation document.

What sizes work best for this one?

The layout is tall and narrow, so vertical sizes suit it best and give the 7,009 ft runway room to run. Larger sizes hold the hangar detail along the east side more legibly. Each print is made to order in the colorway you choose.

Is this a good gift for a pilot who flies out of Hooks?

It tends to land well with anyone who trained, based an aircraft or logged hours here, because the two parallel strips and the hangar rows are recognizable at a glance. Pairs naturally with a print of another field they fly to.