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Richard I. Bong Airport covers an area of 654 acres (265 ha) at an elevation of 674 feet (205 m) above mean sea level.It has two asphalt paved runways: the primary runway 4/22 is 5,100 by 75 feet (1,554 x 23 m) and the crosswind runway 14/32 is 4,001 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m), all with approved GPS approaches.
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
Richard I. Bong Airport: Superior, Wisconsin, United States SUX: KSUX: Sioux Gateway Airport (Colonel Bud Day Field) Sioux City, Iowa, United States SUY: UENS: Suntar ...
The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced in March they were launching a joint ...
A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans ...
Richard Ira Bong in his P-38. Richard I. Bong Air Force Base is an unfinished Air Force base. It was named after World War II aviator Major Richard Ira Bong. The base was intended to be an air defense fighter base for the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. It was conceived in the early 1950s and construction began in the mid-1950s.
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SUPERIOR, WIS. — The famous P-38 Lightning Fighter plane flown by World War II ace of aces Richard I. Bong — and decorated with a photograph of its namesake "Marge" — was discovered last ...