Spirit Of St. Louis Airport
SUS · KSUS · St Louis, Missouri · St Louis County · map
Spirit Of St. Louis Airport is a public-use airport owned by St Louis County, 17 miles west of St Louis, Missouri, 463 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 08R/26L, is 7,486 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KSUS · observed 3:54 pm CDT (20:54 UTC), 26 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west-southwest (240°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 79°F (26°C), dew point 46°F (8°C)
- Altimeter 29.98 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 12:20 pm CDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the south at 5 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 10:00 pm CDT (03:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Wed 2:00 am CDT (07:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility 4 miles, shallow fog, clear skies MVFR
- At times between Wed 3:00 am CDT (08:00 UTC) and 7:00 am CDT (12:00 UTC): visibility 1 mile, mist IFR
- From Wed 7:00 am CDT (12:00 UTC): wind from the west-southwest at 6 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a few clouds at 25,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSUS 062054Z 24007KT 10SM CLR 26/08 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP149 T02610078 56029
TAF KSUS 061720Z 0618/0718 17005KT P6SM SKC FM070300 00000KT P6SM SKC FM070700 00000KT 4SM MIFG SKC TEMPO 0708/0712 1SM BR FM071200 24006KT P6SM FEW250
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.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SUS · ICAO KSUS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- St Louis County
- Elevation
- 463 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,273 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1964
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08R/26L | 7,486 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 08L/26R | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08R: ILS, VASI, two boxes on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, 7,225 ft available for landing
- Runway 26L: ILS, VASI, two boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 481 ft, 7,005 ft available for landing
- Runway 08L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 26R: VASI, two boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, pole 31 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.75 | Spirit |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Sus and automated weather (ASOS) | 134.8 | Spirit |
| Ground · Clearance delivery When tower closed | 121.7 | Spirit |
| Clearance delivery | 133.1 | Spirit |
| Approach and departure | 126.5 | Spirit |
| Buudd and star | 119.15 | Spirit |
| Delma and star | 128.1 | Spirit |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 314-890-7255.
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.
Aircraft registered in St Louis from the FAA register
24 aircraft are registered to owners in St Louis, Missouri: 15 piston singles, 4 business jets, 2 piston twins, 2 balloons, 1 turboprop. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Missouri.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 76 since 1982, 9 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Flight notification service (adcus) available 5:00 pm to 8:30 am MON-FRI; 24 hours Saturday and Sunday.
- ATC-CTL. high-intensity runway lights runway 08R/26L preset on med intst 11:00 pm to 6:00 am; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08L/26R preset on low intst 11:00 pm to 6:00 am. To incr intst aft 2300 and activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 08R and 26L - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude runway 08R/26L prop 1237 feet above ground level, runway 08L/26R prop 837 feet above ground level. Pattern altitude jets 1537 feet above ground level.
- Runway 08L/26R not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats. And parallel and connecting taxiway closed to part 121 air carrier operations.
- Runway 08R/26L closed to tgl.
- Be alert; noise sensitive areas to the south of airport.
- Taxiway B between southeast and northwest entrance to west ramp, taxiway B northwest taxiway a from the dstc of 200 feet to 700 feet and taxiway Z not vsb by tower.
- Nmrs and ints helicopter operations on airport.
- Int C closed indefinitely between taxiway east and runway 08L/26R.
- Noise abatement procedures: for departure stage iii aircraft use 08L/26R 11:00 pm to 6:00 am.
- All MAINT-HI pwr eng RUN-UPS use gnd RUN-UP enclosure on taxiway D.
- Taxilane B between south entrance west ramp and taxiway Z closed.
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 5, 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.