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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 59.1%

DEP / DAY

▲ 61.8%

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 15 arrivals and 18 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

From KDLH, 12 mi away (KSUW does not publish METAR)

48m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

4 kts

20°

Visib

10+ km

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

276 land · 309 TO

26% of ops

177 land · 153 TO

22% of ops

150 land · 135 TO

10% of ops

66 land · 71 TO

Runway 22 carries 41% of operations (276 landings, 309 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

22 276 landings

UA 10%

32 177 landings

UA 4%

04 150 landings

UA 14%

14 66 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 22 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (28 UA events from 276 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

16.3

flights/day · 489 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 4pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 16.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (13.0 vs 18.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 413 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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