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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 14.1%

DEP / DAY

▼ 21.5%

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 9 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago

Temp

46°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 150815Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC037 08/06 A3021 RMK AO2 T00800056

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

42% of ops

142 land · 163 TO

26% of ops

88 land · 85 TO

22% of ops

73 land · 54 TO

10% of ops

34 land · 22 TO

Runway 04 carries 42% of operations (142 landings, 163 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

04 142 landings

UA 12%

32 88 landings

UA 8%

22 73 landings

UA 11%

14 34 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 04 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 142 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

12.8

flights/day · 385 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 5pm · 10pm

Day vs night

59%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 12.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (13.0 vs 13.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (43% of 341 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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