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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 44.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 28.6%

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 6 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

22h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

7 kts

40°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 051735Z AUTO 04007KT 10SM OVC004 18/16 A3012 RMK AO2 T01760159 PWINO

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

42% of ops

304 land · 273 TO

36% of ops

258 land · 268 TO

17% of ops

121 land · 96 TO

5% of ops

34 land · 60 TO

Runway 32 carries 42% of operations (304 landings, 273 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

32 304 landings

UA 4%

04 258 landings

UA 7%

22 121 landings

UA 8%

14 34 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 32 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (12 UA events from 304 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

15.8

flights/day · 474 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 2pm · 4pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 15.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (11.9 vs 18.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (35% of 388 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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