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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 63.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 54.3%

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

5h ago

Temp

57°F

Wind

9 kts

50°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 191735Z AUTO 05009KT 10SM CLR 14/03 A3041 RMK AO2 T01380034

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

40% of ops

123 land · 137 TO

29% of ops

88 land · 83 TO

22% of ops

68 land · 59 TO

9% of ops

28 land · 21 TO

Runway 04 carries 40% of operations (123 landings, 137 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

04 123 landings

UA 13%

32 88 landings

UA 7%

22 68 landings

UA 13%

14 28 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 04 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (16 UA events from 123 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

12.5

flights/day · 374 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 7pm · 3pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 12.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (16.0 vs 11.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 328 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

5/2/2009

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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