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KSUW · SUW

Richard I Bong Airport

46.68970°N

-92.09470°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 7.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 12.7%

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 12 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

49m ago

Temp

79°F

Wind

8 kts

300°

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

36% of ops

204 land · 227 TO

32% of ops

183 land · 153 TO

22% of ops

126 land · 128 TO

9% of ops

53 land · 68 TO

Runway 22 carries 36% of operations (204 landings, 227 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

22 204 landings

UA 8%

32 183 landings

UA 4%

04 126 landings

UA 13%

14 53 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 22 show a 8% unstable-approach rate (17 UA events from 204 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

17.1

flights/day · 512 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 10pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 17.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (14.6 vs 18.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (44% of 431 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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