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Dark circular sticker with orange Black Rock City Municipal Airport text and airport crosshair symbol

BRC Municipal Airport – Year?

Year: 2012

Theme: Fertility 2.0

Details:

Black Rock City has a real airport. FAA identifier 88NV. Two 6,000-foot runways scraped into the dry lakebed. On busy arrival days it ranks among the hundred busiest airports in the United States. Burning Man has welcomed pilots since 1991, when early aviators simply landed wherever they judged best and the city grew up around their planes. The airport was formally founded in 1999 by pilot Lissa Shoun, and by 2004 it had an official manager, facilities team, and volunteer coordinator.

The sticker's exact year is unknown — the catalog records it as 2012, but it could be earlier or later. What is certain is that someone made an airport sticker for a city that only exists for one week a year, which is exactly the kind of detail that makes Black Rock City feel completely real.