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Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 8.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.8%

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

41% of ops

316 land · 284 TO

33% of ops

257 land · 264 TO

22% of ops

167 land · 150 TO

4% of ops

33 land · 60 TO

Runway 32 carries 41% of operations (316 landings, 284 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

32 316 landings

UA 4%

04 257 landings

UA 7%

22 167 landings

UA 7%

14 33 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 32 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (14 UA events from 316 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

17.8

flights/day · 535 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 4pm · 8pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 17.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (11.8 vs 21.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 442 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+

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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