This Greater New York Aviation History Map Poster is an original work by aviation illustrator Chris Bidlack, created to make sense of the dense, overlapping layers of 20th Century flight history around New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island. It turns the whole region into a readable landscape, so you can finally see where famous airfields, factories, and terminals actually sat in relation to one another.

Across the map, carefully researched callouts trace everything from Manhattan seaplane bases and early airline terminals to Long Island’s legendary—but now vanished—airports, including fields where record‑setting flights began and where Charles Lindbergh departed on his Atlantic crossing before the runway disappeared into suburbia. Closed and forgotten airstrips, surviving general‑aviation fields, and key aerospace manufacturers all share the same visual stage, inviting slow, curious exploration rather than a quick glance.

Both famous and little-remembered events are referenced and integrated around key locations, linking the New York area's role in early airmail, transatlantic service, Jet Age development, and the rise and fall of classic airlines tied to the region. The result is both a wall‑worthy art piece and a compact reference you can keep coming back to, discovering new details each time.

Printed at 20" wide by 14" high on heavyweight, acid‑free poster stock, this landscape‑format map is designed to frame beautifully in a study, office, hangar, classroom, or living room. It ships carefully packaged in a sturdy mailing tube, ready for you to unroll and frame, and any watermarks visible in online previews do not appear on the actual print—ideal for New York locals, aviation historians, pilots, and anyone intrigued by where the city’s aviation story really happened.