Flying Cloud Airport Map Print (FCM)

FCM KFCM Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Minneapolis'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 Flying Cloud Airport (FCM), 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 Minneapolis'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.

Flying Cloud

FCM · Minneapolis, Minnesota

44.8275° N · 93.4586° W
Field elevation 906 ft

Identifier

FCM

ICAO code

KFCM

Field elevation

906ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

3°E

Runways

10R/28L5,001 × 100 ft

10L/28R3,901 × 75 ft

18/362,690 × 75 ft

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

Flying Cloud Airport Runway Diagram Print

Flying Cloud has three asphalt runways, and the print makes their odd arithmetic easy to read. Two of them run in parallel on the same east-west line: 10R/28L at 5001 by 100 feet along the bottom of the pair, and the shorter 10L/28R at 3901 by 75 feet riding just above it. Then 18/36, 2690 by 75 feet, drops from top to bottom of the frame and cuts straight through both, meeting them well toward their eastern ends. Three heavy black bars, one crossing point stacked on another, everything else in quiet grey: the composition holds together without any help from color. The field sits at 906 feet above sea level, and the elevation is set in the lower corner under the identifier.

The ground under those bars started as a grass landing strip. The airport was created in 1941, when the United States Navy was training pilots for World War II and made arrangements with a local farmer, Martin "Pappy" Grill, to use his field. After the war Grill sold it to American Aviation, Inc., and John Stuber named it Flying Cloud Airport to reflect local Indian lore and flying. The Metropolitan Airports Commission bought the airport in 1948 and paved the runway, then built a control tower in 1963. In 1968, with 446,198 takeoffs and landings, it was the ninth-busiest airport in the United States. The article behind this description places the field in the city of Eden Prairie, about 11 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis.

What you get on the wall is a working general aviation field rather than a terminal complex: long rows of hangars fanned along the north apron, taxiway loops threading between them, and the three runways sitting on top like rulers. The grey ranks of hangars give the piece its texture, and whichever colorway you choose, the eye still lands on the crossing of 18/36. It reads well on its own and reads even better in a set. Put it beside a smaller South St Paul or Mankato field and the difference in scale does the talking. Available as a Fine Art Print, a Framed Fine Art Print, a Glossy Metal Print or a Digital Download.

Minneapolis (FCM) print, common questions

Where is Flying Cloud Airport and how high is the field?

It is in the Minneapolis area of Minnesota, at 44.827507 N, 93.458572 W, with an elevation of 906 feet. The source article places it in the city of Eden Prairie, roughly 11 miles southwest of the Minneapolis central business district.

How accurate is this artwork to the published layout at FCM?

It follows the published runway layout: two parallel runways on the east-west line, plus 18/36 crossing both of them, plotted from published airport data for cycle 2610. This is artwork for a wall and not a navigation document, so fine details may be simplified or omitted. Pavement markings, signage and lighting are the usual examples.

How long are the runways at FCM?

The longest is 10R/28L at 5001 feet by 100 feet. Its parallel neighbor, 10L/28R, is 3901 feet by 75 feet, and the crossing runway 18/36 is 2690 feet by 75 feet. All three are asphalt, and all three appear in the print.

What does FCM stand for?

FCM is the identifier for Flying Cloud, the code you see on flight plans and on the lower corner of this print. The ICAO form used internationally is KFCM. The name itself came from John Stuber, who chose Flying Cloud to reflect local Indian lore and flying.

What sizes and finishes can I get?

Each piece is offered as a Fine Art Print, a Framed Fine Art Print, a Glossy Metal Print or a Digital Download, in a range of sizes. The wide east-west runways mean this one carries a horizontal emphasis inside a vertical frame, so it has room to breathe at larger sizes. Physical pieces are made to order; the download is a file.

Is this a good gift for a pilot who trained at Flying Cloud?

Yes, and it is a common reason people buy this one. Anyone who has flown the pattern here can point to 10R, 10L or the short 18/36 stub without reading the labels, which is the part of the gift that tends to land.