State College Regional Airport
State College Regional Airport
State College Regional Airport (IATA: SCE, ICAO: KUNV, FAA LID: UNV), formerly University Park Airport, is a public airport in Benner Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, serving State College and Central Pennsylvania. The airport covers 1,105 acres (447 ha) and has one active runway. The airport is owned by The Pennsylvania State University, but the terminal building and parking areas are owned and operated by the Centre County Airport Authority. On February 26, 2026, Penn State and the airport authority announced a deal to sell the airport to the Centre County Airport Authority. It is currently served by United Express and American Eagle, connecting to hubs in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina.
Location
40.849°N, 77.849°O · 378 m s. n. m. (1.239 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 5 Official publication
Tower
Ground
ATIS (automatic information)
Approach
UNICOM
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
In the 1950's, a small airport was built on land leased from Penn State, just north of State College. The Centre County Airport Authority was created to manage the development of the airport. The October 1959 chart shows a 2350-foot runway 6; the August 1965 chart shows 3000 feet; the November 1967 chart adds 2350-foot runway 16. (The intersection of those two 50-foot runways is still visible at 40.8492°N 77.85315°W / 40.8492; -77.85315). The present runway was built parallel to the old runway 6 in 1973-1974; it was then 5000 feet long.
In 1965, Harrisburg Commuter began flights from State College to Harrisburg, two flights each weekday. The 1965 Official Airlines Guide does not state which airport they served, but starting in 1978, Allegheny Commuter flights were at University Park. Penn State assumed the lease and assets of the airport in 1972. A permanent passenger terminal was built in 1985.[1] A new passenger terminal was completed in 1993, and cargo operations moved to the old terminal. In 1997, the runway was lengthened to 6,701 ft (2,042 m). A new general aviation hangar was built in 2001.
Construction on the control tower began on January 8, 2010 and was completed in August 2011. The Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) went operational on September 1, 2011, and is operated by Midwest Air Traffic Control under the Federal Contract Tower Program.
There were 148,196 enplanements in 2025, making State College Regional Airport the 6th busiest airport in Pennsylvania, after Wilkes Barre/Scranton (AVP), Allentown/Lehigh Valley (ABE), Harrisburg (MDT), Pittsburgh (PIT), and Philadelphia (PHL).
On November 3, 2023, the Centre County Airport Authority announced that University Park Airport had been renamed State College Regional Airport.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 29 aircraft documented between 2006 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). State College Regional Airport (SCE). Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SCE
MLA
“State College Regional Airport (SCE).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SCE. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “State College Regional Airport (SCE).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SCE.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) State College Regional Airport (SCE). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/SCE (Accessed: 21 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{State College Regional Airport (SCE)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
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date = {2026-10-16},
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urldate = {2026-10-21},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-21}
}Wikipedia
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