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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 14.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 2.9%

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 14 arrivals and 15 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

17m ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

5 kts

50°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 150715Z AUTO 05005KT 10SM -RA OVC095 16/14 A3014 RMK AO2 T01600135

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

35% of ops

208 land · 227 TO

31% of ops

183 land · 149 TO

24% of ops

144 land · 123 TO

11% of ops

63 land · 70 TO

Runway 22 carries 35% of operations (208 landings, 227 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 31%.

Approach quality

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

22 208 landings

UA 8%

32 183 landings

UA 4%

04 144 landings

UA 15%

14 63 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 22 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 208 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

16.9

flights/day · 506 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 10pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 16.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (13.0 vs 19.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (44% of 426 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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