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Aeroplane and aviation posters from your photo
An aviation poster made from your own photograph: paper, unframed, at A4, A3, A2, 50x70 cm or 70x100 cm. It is the cheapest way in and, for two of the five art styles, it is also the best surface we have.
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Aircraft canvas prints
Canvas stretched over a 2 cm wooden frame, ready to hang, with nothing in front of it. It is the surface that changes the picture most.
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Aircraft metal prints
A 3 mm aluminium panel, frameless, in three sizes. Its smooth surface suits a clear aircraft photograph with strong colour and detail.
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Aviation Father's Day gifts
Aviation Father's Day gifts have one advantage over every other case on this site: you have access to the photographs. Find the aircraft he flew or loved, and the aircraft print redraws it in one of five styles…
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Framed aviation art
The same archival paper, in a wood frame with plexiglass in front of it. Two sizes, two frame colours, and the paper fills the opening edge to edge.
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Gifts for pilots
Gifts for pilots, from a student to a hobby pilot to a captain, work when they show the pilot's own flying: the aircraft they fly, from a photo, or their home airfield in type.
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Gifts for plane spotters, made from their own shots
Gifts for plane spotters are easier than they look, for an odd reason: the spotter has already taken the picture and left it on a hard drive. Choose their best shot and the aircraft print redraws it in one of f…
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Personalised airport code print
An airport code print needs no photo. You type four fields and they are set in navy on off-white, for the very common case where somebody loves aviation and you have no photograph of anything.
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Personalised aviation gifts
Personalised aviation gifts start with their own aircraft: upload a photo and the aircraft print redraws it in one of five styles, which you can see free before paying. An airport that means something to them i…
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Plane gifts
Plane gifts, aeroplane gifts and airplane gifts are at their strongest when they show their own plane, and you don't need to know what it is called. Start from a photo of it, or from a place they fly from.
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Print Your Aircraft Photo
Your best catch, printed exactly as it is. Before you pay, we check it against every size we sell.
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Surprise trip print: a keepsake trip reveal
A keepsake print for the moment you tell them. Choose the departure, the destination or SURPRISE, an optional date and a note. The travel is arranged separately.
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The aircraft photo print
Your own photograph of the aircraft, printed as you shot it. Nothing is redrawn and nothing is enlarged.
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The Aircraft Print
A photo of the aircraft they love, restyled as a blueprint, vintage poster, line drawing, watercolour or oil, and printed to order.
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The pilot mug
Your photograph of their favourite aircraft, printed as you took it on an 11oz white ceramic mug. A personal aviation gift for the desk, the kitchen or a coffee between flights.
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Their aircraft, from your photo
Their own aircraft, from your photo, in one of five styles. See it free before you pay: the preview is watermarked, needs no card, and nothing is printed until you approve it.
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Your aircraft
Aircraft art styles explained: blueprint, vintage poster, line, watercolour or oil?
There are five aircraft art styles to choose from when you upload a photo, plus the photo itself: keep it as a clean photo with the photo print, or restyle it with the aircraft print into a blueprint, a vintage…
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The sky
Airport code lookup
Type a code - LHR, EGKK, or whatever is on the mug - and get the airport it belongs to, the other code it carries, and the coordinates. UK and Irish airports with an IATA code are here, every other UK airfield …
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The sky
Airport codes: IATA and ICAO
Airport codes come in two systems, and most airports carry one of each: a three-letter IATA code for the commercial side of aviation, and a four-letter ICAO code for the operational side.
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The gift
Aviation Christmas gifts
Aviation Christmas gifts start with a favourite aircraft. Upload a photo of it and the aircraft print turns it into a blueprint, vintage poster, line drawing, watercolour or oil painting, free to preview first.…
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The gift
Aviation gifts
Aviation gifts land when they show one aircraft that matters to the person: a photo of it, redrawn in one of five styles and seen free before you pay. No photo to hand? The code of their home airport works with…
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Aviation gifts for men
Aviation gifts for men work when they show his aircraft, not just any aircraft: the one he flies, spots or keeps talking about, from your photo. They suit a partner, dad, brother or friend, and you don't need t…
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More guides and references
Aviation guides
Spotting locations and equipment, pilot training costs, aircraft photographs and personal gifts. Pick the question or decision you came here to answer.
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The sky
Aviation questions, answered.
Answers to the things people look up after something goes over, from how aircraft fly to the history and codes behind them. Every number here names its source.
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On the wall
Aviation wall art
Paper, frame, canvas, metal or a mug. What each format physically is, and which one suits the picture you have.
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Your aircraft
Birmingham Airport plane spotting: Car Park 5 and Sheldon
Birmingham Airport plane spotting has an official home: a free viewing area in Car Park 5, beside the perimeter fence and open 24 hours. When aircraft use runway 15, the airport points spotters to Sheldon Count…
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The sky
Contrails: why planes leave white trails
Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the white lines aircraft leave across the sky. NOAA's description is about as plain as it gets: they form when water vapour from an aircraft's exhaust condenses and…
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Craig Fearn
I run The Aviation Gift Co., a UK business that sells personalised aviation gifts to order. Nothing is warehoused: a piece is printed after somebody buys it. The brand exists because generic aeroplane merchandi…
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