Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field
SUX · KSUX · Sioux City, Iowa · Woodbury County · map
Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field is a public-use airport owned by Sioux Gateway Airport, 6 miles south of Sioux City, Iowa, 1,098 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 9,002 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 66 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 25,464 takeoffs and landings a year. About 27,307 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Weather right now KSUX · observed 12:59 pm CDT (17:59 UTC), 42 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northwest (330°) at 17 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 78°F (26°C), dew point 59°F (15°C)
- Altimeter 29.66 inHg
The forecast issued Mon 12:25 pm CDT (17:25 UTC), good until Tue 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Mon 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the west-northwest at 11 knots, gusting to 20, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 3,500 feet VFR
- From Mon 8:00 pm CDT (01:00 UTC): wind from the north-northwest at 7 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 2,500 feet VFR
- From Tue 4:00 am CDT (09:00 UTC): wind from the north-northwest at 7 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a broken layer at 2,000 feet MVFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
SPECI KSUX 121759Z 33017KT 10SM CLR 26/15 A2966 RMK AO2 WSHFT 1739 T02560150 $
TAF KSUX 121725Z 1218/1318 29011G20KT P6SM FEW035 FM130100 34007KT P6SM FEW025 FM130900 34007KT P6SM BKN020
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
No SIGMET or AIRMET covers this field right now.
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (OMA, 69 nm south), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 210° at 23 kt; 6,000 ft: 240° at 34 kt, 20 °C; 9,000 ft: 230° at 40 kt, 14 °C; 12,000 ft: 220° at 43 kt, 7 °C; 18,000 ft: 240° at 38 kt, -8 °C.
No temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles.
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SUX · ICAO KSUX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Sioux Gateway Airport
- Elevation
- 1,098 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 6:00 am to 9:30 pm
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 6:00 am to 12:00 am; weekends, 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Omaha sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 9,002 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 6,401 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: ILS, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS), tree 72 ft high 3,100 ft from the end
- Runway 31: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 47 ft high 1,160 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, pole 16 ft high 900 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.7 | Sioux City |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Sux and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.45 | Sioux City |
| Ground | 121.9 | Sioux City |
| Approach and departure | 124.6 | Sioux City |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Sioux City |
| Sioux City Center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.025 | Sioux City |
| Ang Comd Post | 138.437 | Sioux City |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 712-317-9924.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales, aerial surveying
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Graham Field (9 nm northwest), LE Mars Municipal (24 nm north), Harold Davidson Field (33 nm northwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Iowa · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) index D fire fighting equiptment available on request.
- Dusk to dawn. When the control tower closed activate mals runway 13; approach lights (MALSR) runway 31; runway end identifier lights runway 18; VASI runway 13 and 31; high-intensity runway lights runway 13/31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- BAK-14 BAK-12B(B) (1392').
- BAK-14 BAK-12B(B) (1492').
- Approach end runway 31 - BAK-12(B)/14 located (1492').
- Approach end runway 13 - BAK-12/14(B) located(1500').
- Ang rmrks: offl bus only/prior permission required. Command post (24 hour open) dsn 585-0211 or 585-0212 or C712-233-0211/0212. Extremely limited parking. Transient aircraft passenger ident and baggage search unavailable.base operations operates 1230-2230Z++ TUE-FRI except holidays. C712-233-0276 dsn 585-0276.
- (E60-13) BAK12/14 located 1392' from threshold.
- Paew 9:30 pm to 6:00 am during inclement weather NOV-APR.
- Ctn: occasional birdwatch condition - sev drg spring/fall due to migratory waterfowl. Civilian tower does not broadcast usaf birdwatch condition. Contact afld mgmt for bird sts.
- Runway 31 is calm wind runway.
- SERVICE-FLUID: lpox and lhnit.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 894 departures from SUX in those twelve months, carrying 31,906 passengers in 45,946 seats (69% filled), to 19 destinations on 5 airlines.
All 19 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 41 |
| multi-engine | 3 |
| jets | 11 |
| helicopters | 2 |
| other | 9 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 25,464, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 55 |
| air taxi and commuter | 2,461 |
| general aviation, travelling | 10,566 |
| general aviation, local | 9,769 |
| military | 2,613 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Sioux City from the FAA register
52 aircraft are registered to owners in Sioux City, Iowa: 41 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 3 business jets, 2 piston twins, 1 helicopter. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Iowa.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in Sioux City, by their names on the register:
- Bonanza Flyers INC 1 aircraft
Repair stations in Sioux City:
- 1 Vision Aviation, Pllc 1 Vision Aviation is a FAR Part 145 certified repair station with facilities in Sioux City, Iowa and Salina, Kansas.
- 1 Vision General Aviation, LLC 1 Vision Aviation is a FAR Part 145 certified repair station with facilities in Sioux City, Iowa and Salina, Kansas.
Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
1 pilot examiner (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) is based within 50 nautical miles: 1 for private pilot, 1 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 1 for flight instructor; 1 for airplanes, 1 for multi-engine airplanes. Also nearby: 3 aviation medical examiners.
- Daniel Dean Vander Weide private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Orange City, IA (40 nm) · (712) 540-4142 · e120flyboy@hotmail.com
All 4 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Sioux City 52 aircraft · 41 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 3 business jets
- Redline Aviation INC 3 aircraft in town
- Shelby Monroe Group LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation 2 aircraft in town
- Clear Prop Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Bonanza Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- 1 Vision Aviation, Pllc · repair station
- 1 Vision General Aviation, LLC · repair station
- Denver International (DEN) 508 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 358 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Sioux Gateway/Brig General Bud Day Field (SUX) 12 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Central IL Rgnl/Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 1 flights in twelve months · Allegiant Air
- Jack Brooks Regional (BPT) 1 flights in twelve months · Allegiant Air
- Akron-Canton Regional (CAK) 1 flights in twelve months · Breeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze
- Northern Colorado Regional (FNL) 1 flights in twelve months · Allegiant Air
- Joe Foss Field (FSD) 1 flights in twelve months · GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 5 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Iowa 869 since 1982 · 129 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Iowa 112 landing places
- Iowa 4,493 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/SUX.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 9, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.