Ellington Airport Map Print (EFD)

EFD KEFD Houston, Texas

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your EFD 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.
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 Ellington Airport (EFD), 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.

Ellington

EFD · Houston, Texas

29.6073° N · 95.1587° W
Field elevation 33 ft

Identifier

EFD

ICAO code

KEFD

Field elevation

33ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

5°E

Runways

17R/35L9,001 × 150 ft

04/228,001 × 150 ft

17L/35R4,609 × 75 ft

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

Ellington Airport Runway Diagram Print

Ellington works three concrete runways, and the diagram sorts them into two families: a pair of north to south parallels and one long diagonal. Runway 17R/35L is the long one at 9,001 by 150 feet, drawn as a full height strip down the western side of the field. Runway 17L/35R sits east of it and is much shorter at 4,609 by 75 feet, stopping around the middle of the sheet. Runway 04/22 is 8,001 by 150 feet and cuts the field on the diagonal, from a threshold beside the long parallel up to the northeast corner, passing just off the south end of the short one. Field elevation is 33 feet above sea level and magnetic variation is 5E.

The Army Air Service established the field on 21 May 1917 on 1,280 acres of prairie southeast of the city, land bought from Dr. R. W. Knox and the Wright Land Company because the local weather suited year round flight training. It is named for First Lieutenant Eric Ellington, an Army aviator killed in a plane crash at San Diego, California in 1913. The base was inactivated as an active duty airfield in January 1920 and nearly abandoned, then revived when the Texas National Guard stood up the 111th Observation Squadron there, an outfit a Houston Chronicle reporter christened Houston's Own.

Rebuilding began in 1940 and turned Ellington into a wartime pilot, navigator and bombardier school. The field reopened for active duty on 31 March 1949 as Ellington Air Force Base with a new Air Force navigator school, and NASA arrived as a tenant in 1962. The City of Houston bought the non military portion in 1984 to run as a third civil airport, and the civil side was renamed Ellington Airport on 14 January 2009. From 1990 to 2004 Continental flew daily regional service between Ellington and Bush Intercontinental, roughly 25 nautical miles, the shortest scheduled fixed wing route in the country.

That layered history is why the linework here is busier than the runway count suggests: taxiways meet in a broad X across the upper half of the field, and a long unbroken ramp with hangar rows and a block of T hangars runs the length of the western boundary. Runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, and the taxiway, ramp 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.

Houston (EFD) print, common questions

How many runways does Ellington Airport have?

Three, all concrete. Runway 17R/35L is 9,001 by 150 feet, runway 04/22 is 8,001 by 150 feet, and runway 17L/35R is 4,609 by 75 feet. The print shows the two parallels and the diagonal at their relative angles.

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

The longest is 17R/35L at 9,001 feet. Field elevation is only 33 feet above sea level, which is set in the margin of the print.

What does EFD stand for and where is the airport?

EFD is the IATA code for Ellington Airport, in Harris County about 15 nautical miles southeast of downtown Houston, near 29.61 north, 95.16 west. It has also been known as Ellington Field and Ellington Air Force Base.

Why is one of the parallel runways so much shorter?

17L/35R is a 4,609 by 75 foot strip beside the 9,001 foot main runway. On the diagram the difference is obvious: one strip runs the full height of the field and the other stops about halfway.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, dimensions and the angles between the three runways come from 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 work as a gift?

Each print is made to order in several sizes and finishes, on a ground tone you choose at checkout. It lands well with Guard and Reserve crews, space program families, and anyone who has flown out of Ellington.