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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 37.5%

DEP / DAY

▲ 11.5%

Richard I Bong Airport (KSUW/SUW) is a small general aviation airport located in Superior, WI, 130 mi north of Saint Paul. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,100 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

2h ago

Temp

75°F

Wind

5 kts

70°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 281835Z AUTO 07005KT 10SM CLR 24/18 A2995 RMK AO2 T02440178

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

36% of ops

112 land · 97 TO

35% of ops

110 land · 100 TO

19% of ops

60 land · 41 TO

9% of ops

29 land · 34 TO

Runway 22 carries 36% of operations (112 landings, 97 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 35%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

22 112 landings

UA 14%

04 110 landings

UA 8%

32 60 landings

UA 5%

14 29 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 22 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 112 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

12.9

flights/day · 386 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 3pm · 7pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 12.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (14.6 vs 12.8 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (46% of 329 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	125.450	—
APCH	233.700	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
AWOS	120.350	—
CD/P	124.800	—
OTHER	124.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMP
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Dlthian

05/01/2009

Learned to fly at the Richard I Bong " Ace of Aces " airport

Small well run airport. Be sure to talk to Bill Amorde in the FBO. Bill is a local legend in flying and has FAA ratings as long as your arm. The guy has done it all, Planes, Balloons, Gliders, Helicopters !!!

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