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About Superior Flying Services

Your local hub for aviation in the Twin Ports.

Flight training, aircraft rental, full-service fuel, ground school, hangar space and pilot amenities — right here in Superior, Wisconsin.

Two things happen on this field. Pilots land here to take on fuel, park an airplane or wait out weather — and people who have never flown anything walk in the front door and ask how you start. We are set up for both, fifteen minutes from Duluth, with none of the queueing a bigger airport asks of you.

Starting is one flight. On a Discovery Flight you sit in the left seat of one of our Cessna 172s, an instructor takes the airplane off and then hands it to you, and somewhere over the harbor you find out whether this is yours. It costs $125, and the time goes in a logbook that counts toward your certificate.

After that our FAA-certified instructors take you the whole way — Private, Instrument, Commercial, Multi-Engine, and the CFI ratings if you want to teach. Training is one-on-one and paced around your week rather than a class timetable. Pilots already flying come here for flight reviews, instrument proficiency checks and the rust-removal after a few years off.

“From first lessons to advanced training, from fuel services to aircraft rental, Superior Flying Services brings together everything a pilot needs — right here in Superior.”
Operating principles Superior, WI

Why train here

  • Maintenance in our own hangar

    Our maintenance happens here on the field, not at a shop three states away. That means limited aircraft downtime — and a lesson that actually happens on the day you booked it.

  • Scheduled around your life

    Instruction is one-on-one and paced to how you learn. Lessons are scheduled around your availability, seven days a week, and ground school happens here too.

  • Instructors at every level

    Four full-time FAA-certified instructors cover Private through Instrument, Commercial, Multi-Engine and CFI — plus proficiency checks and flight reviews for pilots coming back after time away.

  • A small school, on purpose

    We’re the Twin Ports’ local aviation hub, and we stayed small deliberately: each student’s progress matters here, and you will never be a number on a dispatch board.

Calvin Kramp standing with his hand on the propeller of the Piper Seneca on the ramp at KSUW.

Our why

Why it never got any bigger.

“A small flight school feel, where each student’s progress matters.”
Calvin Kramp Owner · CFII/MEI · Airport Manager, KSUW

Owner Calvin Kramp on how this school is built — and why it stayed the size it is.

Also on this field

Not only a flight school.

A deck of cumulus cloud seen from above from the cockpit of an aircraft in cruise, with clear blue sky over the top of it.

Adventure Flights

Not sure you want to sign up for flight training yet? Discovery and Adventure Flights are a way of testing the water — and the time counts toward your flight hours.

  • A real flight over the Twin Ports and the Lake Superior shore
  • A certified instructor in the right seat the whole way
  • The time you log counts toward a pilot certificate
Ask us about an Adventure Flight →
Four aircraft parked nose-on across the hold-short markings at KSUW: the Cessna 172 N616SK, a Cessna 172 in blue, the Piper Seneca, and the Cessna 172 N784BG.

Aircraft Rental

Renting gives you the freedom to fly without the cost or the commitment of ownership. Our four Cessna 172s, the Piper Seneca III and the PFC DCX Max are all available to rent once you have checked out with one of our instructors.

  • Cessna 172s $145–$155/hr wet · Piper Seneca III $395/hr + tax
  • PFC DCX Max training device $65/hr
  • A checkout with one of our instructors comes first
See the fleet and the rates →
A Superior Flying Services line technician in a hi-vis vest fuelling an aircraft wing from the Titan Aviation Fuel truck.

FBO Services & Amenities

Whether you are a pilot stopping in to refuel and rest or a based owner looking for a hangar, this is a full-service FBO — and an authorized Titan Aviation Fuel dealer.

  • 100LL and Jet-A, full service and self serve
  • Hangar space, ground support and pilot amenities
  • An authorized Titan Aviation Fuel dealer
Call the field — 715-394-6444 →
First light

The smoothest air of the day is at dawn.

Calm, stable, and empty of traffic. It is why the first lesson on the schedule is so often the one students remember.

The green-and-white Cessna 172 N616SK parked on the ramp at KSUW with the terminal building behind it.
Tools that match the standard

Maintained in our own hangar — which is why the airplanes are actually here.

Flying more than one airplane makes a better pilot. Steam gauges and glass, 160 and 180 horsepower, VFR and IFR — by the time you take a checkride you have adapted to a panel you didn’t memorize, which is exactly what the rest of your flying will ask of you.

Explore the training programs
Where we fly

Superior Flying Services is based in Superior, Wisconsin (Twin Ports — 15 minutes from Duluth, MN). Serving Superior, Duluth, Hermantown, Cloquet, Ashland, and the greater Twin Ports across northwest Wisconsin and northeast Minnesota.

Ready for your first flight?

Book the flight, or call the field first — the phone is answered by somebody who flies here, and five minutes usually settles it.

Book a Discovery Flight — $125 Speak to an advisor