Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field

Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field (KSUX) is a medium airport in Sioux City, IA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KSUX or IATA code SUX. It sits in North America.

Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 9,002 ft (2,744 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Sioux Gateway Airport / Brigadier General Bud Day Field lies at 1,098 ft elevation.

Local operations run on America/Chicago. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 2 departing and 2 arriving private-jet legs at KSUX across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KSUX 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.

Sioux Gateway Airport, also known as Brigadier General Bud Day Field, is a public and military use airport in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is located six nautical miles south of the central business district of Sioux City, just west of Sergeant Bluff. On May 25, 2002, the airport was named in honor of United States Air Force Colonel George Everette "Bud" Day, a Sioux City, Iowa, native who is the only person ever awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross.