Identifier
GBD
Great Bend Municipal Airport Map Print (GBD)
GBD
KGBD
Great Bend, Kansas
$55
✓ Free US shipping · Made to Order
Colorway
White
Black
Navy
Sand
Blueprint
Night Ops
Hi-Viz
Finish
Fine Art Print pairs 330 gsm, 100% cotton Hot Press paper with pigment giclée printing for rich color and a smooth matte finish. Supplied unframed. Orders containing only paper prints ship flat.
Framed Fine Art Print presents the same cotton paper in a 1.25 inch solid wood frame, with a white beveled mat and optical-grade clear acrylic. The mat is included, and hanging wire is already installed.
Glossy Metal Print brings vivid color to coated aluminum through dye sublimation. The glossy surface resists scratches and water; the included hidden mount positions it about 3/4 inch off the wall.
Size
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- Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
- Great Bend'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 Great Bend Municipal Airport (GBD), 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.
The Digital Download is a JPEG at 300 dpi, sized for 24 by 30 inches. The digital add-on matches the selected physical print size at 300 dpi. Download links arrive by email and stay active for 30 days; save the file within that time and keep it for personal, non-commercial use. No physical item is shipped.
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.
Digital downloads are non-refundable once delivered, except where required by law or where AirportPrints determines that a delivery failure or technical issue was caused by AirportPrints.
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.
Framed Fine Art Print: the same cotton fine art paper in a 1.25 inch solid wood frame. A white, acid-free, 4-ply mat with a 45-degree bevel and optical-grade, shatter-resistant clear acrylic (safer to ship than glass) are included. The print is mounted to foam core for a flat presentation, with a kraft paper dust cover and installed hanging wire on the back.
Glossy Metal Print: the image is transferred by dye sublimation into polymer-coated aluminum with a glossy white base. The 1.14 mm panel has a scratch- and water-resistant surface, with a hidden inset mount that positions it about 3/4 inch off the wall. Display indoors, away from direct sunlight.
Digital Download: a high-resolution JPEG for personal, non-commercial use. No physical paper, frame, or metal panel is included.
Dimensions
Fine Art Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches.
Framed Fine Art Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches, measured across the mat and acrylic area inside the frame. The mat sits within that area, so the visible image is about 6 x 8, 12 x 16, or 18 x 24 inches. The outside frame is larger than the listed size.
Glossy Metal Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches. During sublimation, 1/8 to 1/4 inch of the artwork may be cropped, so the printed edge can differ slightly from the preview.
Digital Download: a 7200 x 9000 pixel JPEG at 300 dpi for 24 x 30 inch printing. A digital add-on instead matches the selected physical size: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, or 24 x 30 inches at 300 dpi.
Made like something you keep.
The field itself
This is Great Bend'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.
Great Bend Municipal
GBD · Great Bend, Kansas
38.3443° N · 98.8592° W
Field elevation 1,887 ft
Field elevation 1,887 ft
ICAO code
KGBD
Field elevation
1,887ft
Runways
2
Magnetic variation
8°E
Runways
17/357,852 × 100 ft
11/294,706 × 75 ft
Composed from published airport information and available field depictions as original wall art. Learn how AirportPrints maps take shape.
Great Bend Municipal Airport Runway Diagram Print
Great Bend Municipal Airport works two runways, and the print is organized around the long one: 17/35 at 7,852 by 100 feet, drawn as a single hard vertical bar down the right side of the frame. Runway 11/29, 4,706 by 75 feet, comes in from the northwest as a long diagonal and crosses the vertical close to its south end, so the two read as a narrow wedge rather than a cross. Field elevation is 1,887 feet above sea level and magnetic variation is 8E. West of the runways the pale pavement opens into a wide triangle of taxiway that runs out to a single rounded point at the far edge of the field, and the empty ground it encloses does as much work in the composition as the linework does.
The field was built as Great Bend Army Air Field. The intention to build it was announced to the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce in a telegram from Senator Arthur Capper on 30 September 1942, after a committee of citizens from Great Bend and Hoisington had made the original proposal. It was meant at first as a satellite of Smoky Hill Army Air Field at Salina, and the Army laid down three intersecting concrete runways sized for the B-29 Superfortress, with three hangars and a parking apron a mile long. Great Bend was in the first group of Army Air Forces bases used for initial B-29 training in the summer of 1943, and along with Walker Army Air Field near Victoria, Pratt Army Air Field and Smoky Hill it supplied the initial cadre of the 58th Bombardment Wing, the first B-29 combat wing of the war. The 444th Bombardment Group finished its training and left for overseas service by April 1944, and the 498th, the 19th and the 333d followed it through.
The base closed in the late 1940s and the field was turned over to civil control under the City of Great Bend, which carried two of the three wartime runways forward into the municipal airport, and those two are what this diagram is drawn from. Scheduled airline service began in 1951 with Continental DC-3s on a ten stop route between Denver and Kansas City, passed through a long line of successor carriers, and ended in January 2016 when SeaPort Airlines shut down. The B-29 Memorial Plaza sits at the entrance to the airport. The wide western pavement in the print is the clearest hint of what the ground was laid out for: a field sized for very heavy bombers, holding a shape a municipal airport would never have been given on its own.
Great Bend (GBD) print, common questions
How many runways does Great Bend Municipal Airport have?
Two. Runway 17/35 is 7,852 by 100 feet of concrete and runway 11/29 is 4,706 by 75 feet of asphalt. On the print they converge near the south end of 17/35.
What is the longest runway at GBD, and how high is the field?
The longest is 17/35 at 7,852 feet. Field elevation is 1,887 feet above sea level, and that figure is set in the margin of the print.
What does GBD stand for and where is the airport?
GBD is the IATA code for Great Bend Municipal Airport, five miles west of Great Bend in Barton County, Kansas, at roughly 38.34 north, 98.86 west.
Why does a municipal airport have a layout this large?
Because it started as a military field. Great Bend Army Air Field was built from 1942 with three intersecting concrete runways sized for the B-29 Superfortress, and the civil airport inherited the ground. The long runway and the reach of the taxiway geometry in the print both come from that.
How close is the print to the real airport?
Runway designators, lengths and widths follow the airport's published figures, and taxiways and apron edges are reduced to flat geometry. 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 can I get, and does this work as a gift?
Each print is made to order in a range of sizes and finishes, on the ground tone you choose at checkout. It reads well for anyone with a link to the B-29 story in central Kansas, a pilot based at the field, or a family with Barton County roots.
