Spirit of St Louis Airport

Spirit of St Louis Airport (KSUS) is a medium airport in St Louis, MO. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KSUS or IATA code SUS. It sits in North America.

Spirit of St Louis Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 7,486-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 7,486 ft (2,282 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

Spirit of St Louis Airport sits near sea level at 463 ft.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 206 departing and 102 arriving private-jet legs at KSUS across the next six months of operator inventory. 14 aircraft from 21 operators are based here or fly through regularly, so most empty-leg supply originates from a local fleet rather than out-of-town repositioning.

Regional fields like KSUS are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Spirit of St. Louis Airport is a public airport located 17 miles (27 km) west of the central business district of St. Louis, in St. Louis County, Missouri, in the city of Chesterfield, United States. It is owned by St. Louis County and named after the famous Spirit of St. Louis aircraft.