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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 79.5%

DEP / DAY

▲ 17.9%

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 10 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

1d ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

9 kts

30°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 291555Z AUTO 03009G14KT 10SM SCT007 OVC012 17/16 A2993 RMK AO2 T01720164

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

36% of ops

155 land · 141 TO

33% of ops

146 land · 149 TO

26% of ops

114 land · 106 TO

5% of ops

21 land · 29 TO

Runway 32 carries 36% of operations (155 landings, 141 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

32 155 landings

UA 5%

04 146 landings

UA 8%

22 114 landings

UA 5%

14 21 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 32 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 155 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

16.4

flights/day · 493 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 4pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 16.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (14.1 vs 18.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (41% of 405 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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