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.
Ridge Soaring Gliderport covered an area of 90 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 815 feet (248 m) above mean sea level.
[1] At the airport there was a bunkhouse with showers, small kitchen, pilots lounge, motorhome facilities, aircraft hangars and protected storage for glider trailers.