Spirit of St. Louis Airport Map Print (SUS)

- 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.
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 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
Field elevation 463 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.
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