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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 20.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 24.1%

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 6 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

64°F

Wind

6 kts

180°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 120555Z AUTO 18006KT 10SM SCT090 SCT120 18/18 A2966 RMK AO2 T01840176 10255 20184 402970126

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

43% of ops

227 land · 247 TO

35% of ops

188 land · 178 TO

18% of ops

94 land · 81 TO

4% of ops

21 land · 30 TO

Runway 04 carries 43% of operations (227 landings, 247 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

04 227 landings

UA 7%

32 188 landings

UA 7%

22 94 landings

UA 11%

14 21 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 04 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (15 UA events from 227 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

13.2

flights/day · 397 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 10pm · 4pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 13.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (8.0 vs 15.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (36% of 330 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

5/1/2009

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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