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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Visib

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Ceil

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Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

39% of ops

339 land · 326 TO

36% of ops

313 land · 252 TO

17% of ops

147 land · 123 TO

9% of ops

78 land · 84 TO

Runway 04 carries 39% of operations (339 landings, 326 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

04 339 landings

UA 9%

22 313 landings

UA 13%

32 147 landings

UA 7%

14 78 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 04 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 339 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

11.3

flights/day · 339 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 3pm · 7pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 11.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (11.6 vs 11.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (49% of 286 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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