Ridge Soaring Gliderport

Ridge Soaring Gliderport
IATA: none ICAO: none FAA LID: 79N
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Knauff & Grove, Inc
Serves	Unionville, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Location	Julian, Pennsylvania
Elevation AMSL	815 ft / 248 m
Coordinates	40°53′02″N 077°54′26″W / 40.88389°N 77.90722°W / 40.88389; -77.90722
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 7/25 3,322 1,013 Asphalt/Turf
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations 18,000 Based aircraft 34
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Ridge Soaring Gliderport (FAA LID: 79N) was a public-use glider airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Unionville, in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was privately owned by Knauff & Grove, Inc.^[1]

This FBO airport was world-famous for ridge, thermal and wave soaring. It was located on U.S. Route 220 (alternate) 8 miles south of Interstate 80, between Unionville and Julian, at the base of the Bald Eagle Mountain ridge. It was approximately 10 miles from State College and approximately midway between Altoona and Lock Haven in the Bald Eagle Valley. Visitors could look at an entire wall of U.S. National and World records that have been set from this airfield.