Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field Map Print (SUX)

SUX KSUX Sioux City, Iowa

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your SUX 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.
Sioux City'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 Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field (SUX), 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 Sioux City'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.

Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field

SUX · Sioux City, Iowa

42.4013° N · 96.3844° W
Field elevation 1,099 ft

Identifier

SUX

ICAO code

KSUX

Field elevation

1,099ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

3°E

Runways

13/319,002 × 150 ft

18/366,401 × 100 ft

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

Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field Runway Diagram Print

Sioux Gateway Airport puts two runways on the sheet at an awkward, interesting angle to each other. Runway 13/31, 9,002 by 150 feet and concrete, falls as a long diagonal from the upper left down to the lower right, and runway 18/36, 6,401 by 100 feet and asphalt, drops almost straight down the middle of the drawing. They meet low and off center, close to the 36 threshold and roughly two thirds of the way along 13/31 from the 13 end, which leaves a long clean run of the main runway above the crossing and a short stub below it. Field elevation is 1,099 feet above sea level and magnetic variation is 3E. The terminal, hangars and Guard ramp are packed into a band down the east side, so the left half of the print is almost entirely open ground and pavement.

The field is a war build. Construction of Sioux City Army Air Base began in March 1942, about three months after Pearl Harbor, and the base opened on July 5, 1942 as a major training center for B-24 Liberator and B-17 Flying Fortress crews. It closed in December 1945, reopened in September 1946 under the Air Force Reserve as one of the first postwar reserve bases, and in December 1946 the 185th Iowa Air National Guard unit was established at Sioux City. On May 25, 2002 the airport was named Brigadier General Bud Day Field for Colonel George Everette Day, a Sioux City native and the only person ever awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross.

The three letter code has its own story. City officials petitioned for a change in 1998 and again in 2002, found the alternatives on offer, GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY, no better, and kept SUX; by October 2007 an airport board member was arguing publicly that the city should embrace it instead. The field also holds a heavier place in aviation memory. In 1989, on July 19, United Airlines Flight 232 lost its flight controls on a run from Denver to Philadelphia by way of Chicago and made an emergency landing here; 112 people died and 184 survived, an outcome studied ever since for what the crew and the ground response managed to do.

Nothing in the drawing is dressed up. Runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, and taxiways and apron edges are reduced to flat geometry over the ground tone you choose. The airport covers 2,460 acres, which gives the two runways room to sit at full length inside the frame with the built up east edge acting as a counterweight to all that open space. This is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions, printed to order at a size that reads across a room and holds up close.

Sioux City (SUX) print, common questions

How many runways does Sioux Gateway Airport have?

Two, and they cross. Runway 13/31 is 9,002 by 150 feet and concrete; runway 18/36 is 6,401 by 100 feet and asphalt. Both are on the print at their published dimensions and relative angles.

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

The longest runway is 13/31 at 9,002 feet. Field elevation is 1,099 feet above sea level, and that figure is set in the margin of the print.

What does SUX stand for and where is the airport?

SUX is the IATA code for Sioux Gateway Airport, six nautical miles south of downtown Sioux City in Woodbury County, Iowa, just west of Sergeant Bluff, at roughly 42.40 north, 96.38 west. The city tried twice to trade the code away, in 1998 and 2002, and kept it.

Who is Bud Day?

Colonel George Everette Day was a Sioux City native and the only person ever awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross. The airport was named Brigadier General Bud Day Field in his honor on May 25, 2002.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the off center crossing 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 work as a gift?

Each print is made to order in several sizes and finishes, on a ground tone you choose at checkout. It suits anyone who flew Guard tankers out of Sioux City, learned to fly in Woodbury County, or grew up watching the field from Sergeant Bluff.