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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 8.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.8%

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 9 arrivals and 10 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

2h ago

Temp

66°F

Wind

13 kts

60°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KSUW 031535Z AUTO 06013G18KT 10SM SCT008 BKN042 OVC060 19/16 A2994 RMK AO2 T01910156

Runways

2 installed

5,100 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

41% of ops

314 land · 282 TO

33% of ops

256 land · 263 TO

22% of ops

166 land · 150 TO

4% of ops

33 land · 60 TO

Runway 32 carries 41% of operations (314 landings, 282 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

32 314 landings

UA 4%

04 256 landings

UA 7%

22 166 landings

UA 7%

14 33 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 32 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 314 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

17.6

flights/day · 529 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 8pm · 4pm

Day vs night

57%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 17.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (11.8 vs 20.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (40% of 437 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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