Reno/Stead Airport Map Print (RTS)

RTS KRTS Reno, Nevada

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your RTS 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.
Reno'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 Reno/Stead Airport (RTS), 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 Reno'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.

Reno/Stead

RTS · Reno, Nevada

39.6682° N · 119.8764° W
Field elevation 5,050 ft

Identifier

RTS

ICAO code

KRTS

Field elevation

5,050ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

16°E

Runways

14/329,000 × 150 ft

08/267,608 × 150 ft

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

Reno/Stead Airport Runway Diagram Print

Reno/Stead Airport draws as a narrow wedge rather than the usual cross. Runway 14/32 is 9,000 by 150 feet and falls the full height of the sheet from the 14 threshold at the top down to the lower right corner. Runway 08/26 is 7,608 by 150 feet and runs almost flat across the bottom of the frame. The two nearly touch at the lower right, where the 32 and 26 thresholds sit side by side, so the runways read as two sides of a long triangle with the corner pinned in one place and the open end pointing up and to the left. Field elevation is 5,050 feet and magnetic variation is 16E.

The taxiways close that triangle off, which is the unusual part of this diagram. A long perimeter route runs down the west side and another follows 14/32 on the inside, so the print holds a large empty polygon in the middle of the field with a single connector cutting across it. Along the bottom, south of runway 08/26, sits a deep band of ramp: rows of hangar blocks, a grid of parking squares and a scatter of small buildings stretched across most of the width of the drawing. The result is a composition with all its weight along the bottom edge and a big quiet shape above it, which is why this one hangs well large.

The field was opened by the United States Army Air Forces in 1942. The Air Force established Stead Air Force Base here in 1951, naming it for 1st Lt. Croston Stead, who died at the field in a training accident in 1949, and it was chosen because the Sierra Nevada and the country around it suited survival training. The USAF Survival School and the 3904th Composite Wing moved in from Camp Carson that May, flying C-119 Flying Boxcars. Air Training Command took the base over in 1954, the USAF Helicopter Pilot School relocated here in 1958 to use the mountains for advanced training, and in 1960 and 1962 astronauts went through desert survival training run by the resident training squadron. The base closed in 1966.

Civil use filled the space. Bill Lear, the founder of Learjet, set up operations at the field in the 1960s, and from 1964 through 2024 it hosted the National Championship Air Races, run every September and known to most people as the Reno Air Races. The Earthwinds balloon system launched from here in the early 1990s on its failed attempts to circle the globe. None of that is legible in a runway diagram, which is rather the point: what you get is the shape the flying left behind. Runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, taxiways and apron edges are reduced to flat geometry, and the sheet is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions, made to order over the ground tone you choose.

Reno (RTS) print, common questions

How many runways does Reno/Stead Airport have?

Two asphalt runways that meet at a corner rather than crossing. Runway 14/32 is 9,000 by 150 feet and runway 08/26 is 7,608 by 150 feet, and their 32 and 26 ends sit close together at one side of the field.

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

Runway 14/32 at 9,000 feet is the longest. Field elevation is 5,050 feet above sea level, and the airport covers about 5,000 acres.

Where is RTS and what does the code stand for?

RTS is the identifier for Reno/Stead Airport, in the North Valleys area about 10 nautical miles northwest of downtown Reno in Washoe County, Nevada. It has no separate airline ticketing code of its own; those letters went to an airport in Western Australia.

Is this the airport that held the Reno Air Races?

Yes. From 1964 through 2024 the field hosted the National Championship Air Races each September. The print shows the runways, taxiways and ramps of the field itself, not the race course or its pylons.

Is the diagram accurate to the real field?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the angle between the two 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 can I get, and does this make a good gift?

Several sizes and finishes, each made to order, on a ground tone you select at checkout. It reads well for race fans, survival school and helicopter school alumni, and anyone based on the Stead ramp.