China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field) Map Print (NID)

NID KNID China Lake, California

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
China Lake'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 China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field) (NID), 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 China Lake'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.

China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field)

NID · China Lake, California

35.6854° N · 117.6952° W
Field elevation 2,288 ft

Identifier

NID

ICAO code

KNID

Field elevation

2,288ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

14°E

Runways

08/2611,199 × 200 ft

03/2110,000 × 200 ft

14/329,014 × 200 ft

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

China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field) Runway Diagram Print

NID draws as a capital A. Runway 08/26 runs flat across the sheet at 11199 feet, the longest of the three, while two diagonals rise to meet above it: 03/21 climbing from lower left to upper right at 10000 feet, and 14/32 dropping from upper left to lower right at 9014 feet. The two diagonals cross near the top of the field, the long horizontal ties them together lower down, and the letter closes itself. It is one of the cleaner shapes in a three runway field, because nothing in it is parallel and nothing is wasted.

All three runways measure 200 feet across, and that width is what gives the print its weight. The strips stay thick at every size, so the A holds together from the other side of a room instead of dissolving into hairlines. Two of them, 08/26 and 03/21, are concrete; 14/32 is asphalt. Everything else, the taxiways, the aprons and the building blocks, sits back in a lighter grey and fills the right side of the triangle without arguing with the runways.

The field sits at 2288 feet above sea level, at 35.685388 north and 117.695169 west, and the elevation and coordinates are set under the NID block so the geography travels with the shape. Magnetic variation here is 14E, which is the quiet reason the runway numbers and a compass bearing never quite agree. If you are building a wall out of this corner of California, NID hangs naturally beside Mojave and Lancaster, and the three layouts read as three different solutions to the same flat ground.

China Lake (NID) print, common questions

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

Three. Runway 08/26 is 11199 feet long, 03/21 is 10000 feet, and 14/32 is 9014 feet. All three are 200 feet wide, and all three appear on the print with their designators marked at the ends.

How high is China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field)?

The field elevation is 2288 feet. That figure is printed under the identifier block on the sheet, along with the coordinates 35.6854 north and 117.6952 west.

What does NID stand for, and where is it?

NID is the three letter identifier for China Lake NAWS (Armitage Field) in China Lake, California. The four letter version used internationally is KNID. Only the short code is set large on the artwork.

How accurate is the layout on the print?

The runways are plotted from published runway data, cycle 2610 effective 2026-09-03, so the designators, the relative lengths and the angles where the strips cross follow that information. This is composed as artwork rather than a navigation document, and fine details may be simplified or omitted. Markings, lighting and signage are the usual examples.

What sizes and finishes can I get this in?

Three sizes, all portrait: 8x10, 16x20 and 24x30. Each is offered as a Fine Art Print, a Framed Fine Art Print, a Glossy Metal Print or a Digital Download. The upright proportion suits this field, since the A stands tall in the upper frame with the identifier block sitting below it, and the colorway you choose sets how strongly the runways separate from the ground.

Does this work as a gift?

It does if the person has a reason to know this field. The draw is recognition: someone who has flown or worked here reads the crossing diagonals before they read the letters. Physical pieces are made to order, and the Digital Download is a file if you need something immediately.