Spirit of St. Louis Airport Map Print (SUS)

SUS KSUS St. Louis, Missouri
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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.
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  • Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
  • St. Louis'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 Spirit of St. Louis Airport (SUS), 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 St. Louis'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.

Spirit of St. Louis

SUS · St. Louis, Missouri
38.6621° N · 90.6520° W
Field elevation 463 ft
Identifier
SUS
ICAO code
KSUS
Field elevation
463ft
Runways
2
Magnetic variation
W
Runways
08R/26L7,486 × 150 ft
08L/26R5,000 × 75 ft

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

Spirit of St. Louis Airport Runway Diagram Print

Spirit of St. Louis Airport works two parallel runways, and this print plots both to scale from the published runway data. Runway 08R/26L is the long one at 7,486 feet by 150 feet, laid in concrete. Runway 08L/26R is asphalt at 5,000 feet by 75 feet, half as wide and two thirds as long, so the pair reads on the sheet as one heavy line and one light one running together instead of the crossing shapes most fields hand a diagram. Field elevation is 463 feet, and the magnetic variation is 1W, about as close to nothing as that number gets, noted small in the corner the way a chart carries it.

The airport is 17 miles west of downtown St. Louis, in Chesterfield, on about 1,300 acres, and St. Louis County owns it. It is named after the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft, and it exists because Paul Haglin, a McDonnell engineer, began buying land along the Missouri River in the 1950s. Groundbreaking for a 5,100 foot runway came on November 8, 1963. A lawsuit from the owners of a neighboring field held up the opening, so it opened on November 6, 1964 and was dedicated on August 21, 1965. The county took over 822 acres of it on January 1, 1980. When Anheuser-Busch announced in July 1986 that it was moving operations from Lambert Field, it offered to help pay for lengthening the south runway. The airport became an international airport in 1997, and the north runway was extended to 5,000 feet in 1999.

It is a genuinely busy place. In 2022 the field logged 143,570 aircraft operations, an average of 393 a day, with 295 aircraft based there. It has taken its hits as well: a tornado on June 7, 1990 destroyed or damaged 16 airplanes, and the Missouri River flood of 1993 did enough damage to cancel that year's county fair and air show. The print keeps the geometry that came through all of it, two parallel strips at different lengths and widths with their designators alongside, composed from published airport information and available field depictions and set on a ground tone you choose. It holds as a clean graphic mark from across a room and rewards a closer look, which makes it a pointed gift for anyone who keeps an airplane at SUS.

St. Louis (SUS) print, common questions

How many runways does Spirit of St. Louis Airport have?

Two, and they are parallel. Runway 08R/26L is concrete and runway 08L/26R is asphalt. Both are drawn to scale in the print.

How long is the longest runway at SUS?

7,486 feet. That is runway 08R/26L, at 150 feet wide. The parallel runway, 08L/26R, measures 5,000 by 75 feet.

Why do the runways have L and R in their names?

Because they are parallel and share the same heading. The left and right suffixes tell you which of the pair you are looking at, and both designators are carried on the print.

What is the field elevation at SUS?

463 feet above sea level, printed small in the corner of the diagram alongside the 1W magnetic variation.

Where is SUS, and who owns it?

The airport is 17 miles west of downtown St. Louis, in Chesterfield, Missouri, and it is owned by St. Louis County. It is named after the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft.

How does the SUS print relate to the airport's layout?

Published airport information and available field depictions guide the SUS composition, including the runway designators and relative geometry. It is original wall art, so fine details may be simplified or omitted.

$55
White · Fine Art Print · 16 × 20