A flying club for glider pilots. Our goal is to promote and enjoy the art of soaring, motorless flight. We fly year-round from Blairstown Airport (1N7) in Blairstown, New Jersey and Wurtsboro, NY. Blairstown airport is 5 miles from the scenic Delaware Water Gap and the Kittatinny Ridge, and 65 miles from New York City and 100 miles from Philadelphia. Wurtsboro Airport is located at the foothills of the Catskills Mountains. We enjoy a wide variety of soaring conditions: thermal, wave, convergence and ridge lift. We have access to hundreds of miles of beautiful, rolling ridges, that stretch across Pennsylvania and beyond. A few 1000 kilometer soaring flights have started and finished here, as well countless hours of local ridge flying within sight of the field. We occasionally achieve climbs to 9,000 feet in thermals or 12,000 feet or more in wave lift. On clear visibility days and with enough altitude, our flyers can see the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River, and the skyline of New York City.
ACA has operations at Blairstown Airport (1N7) and Wurtsboro Airport (N82). Both airports have commercial power plane and glider/sailplane operations for rides, instruction and tows. Wurtsboro operates, weather permitting, 7 days a week. Blairstown tows on the weekends and on-call during the week.