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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 45.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 41.1%

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 3 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

3 kts

60°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 080235Z AUTO 06003KT 10SM CLR 21/19 A3001 RMK AO2 T02120189

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

40% of ops

135 land · 123 TO

35% of ops

117 land · 87 TO

21% of ops

69 land · 87 TO

4% of ops

15 land · 28 TO

Runway 04 carries 40% of operations (135 landings, 123 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

04 135 landings

UA 15%

22 117 landings

UA 17%

32 69 landings

UA 10%

14 15 landings

UA 20%

Approaches to 04 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (20 UA events from 135 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

10.4

flights/day · 312 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 3pm · 6pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 10.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (11.6 vs 10.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (55% of 270 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

05/01/2009

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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