A flight crew from the 77th Bombardier Squadron (Eleventh Air Force) stands beside a plane on the runway at Adak. Left to right: Weldon Preddy, Joe Fontaine, and Ken Wood. Marsden matting (steel interlocked plates) covers the ground. Original...
Title taken from verso. Flight attendants hold banner while pilot cuts banner with giant scissors at Wien Air Alaska Anchorage to Seattle inaugural flight celebration at Gate 33, Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska. Banner reads:...
Title taken from verso. Flight attendants hold banner at Gate 33 at Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska during celebration of Wien Air Alaska inaugural flight from Anchorage to Seattle, Washington. Banner reads: "Wien Air Alaska...
View of pilot Noel Wien in Fairbanks, Alaska, preparing for first commercial flight between Fairbanks and Nome, with Fairbanks Mayor Dr. de la Vergne in derby. From verso: "The personal service which is a watchword with Wien was evident even in...
View of people carrying baby in incubator aboard Wien Air Alaska Boeing 737 in Alaska. Printed on airplane: "Wien Air Alaska" and "Boeing 737." Original photograph size: 7" x 5".
Title taken from front. Townspeople lined up on shore watching planes taxi in, Seward, Alaska, during U.S. Army world flight. From verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1924. Photographer:...
Title taken from front. View of three planes in the World Flight Squadron on Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska. From verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." April 15, 1924. Photographer: Alaska...
Title taken from verso. Major Frederick L. Martin, one of the pilots from U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, near Van Gilder Hotel, Seward, Alaska. Also from verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical...
Title taken from verso. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, one of pilots from U.S. Army Air Service World Flight outside Van Gilder Hotel, Seward, Alaska. Also from verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical...
Title taken from verso. Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, mechanic from the U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, near Van Gilder Hotel, Seward, Alaska. Also from verso: "U.S. Army Air Service World Flight, 1924. Property of Cook Inlet Historical...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title from caption. Appears to be a photograph of a map. The map shows the route that Joe Crosson flew from Fairbanks, to Wiseman, to Point Barrow, to Cape Sabine, to Cape Thompson, to Kotzebue, to Noorvik, to Ruby, and then back to Fairbanks....
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Verso: Ann Chambers, Nome's Midnight Sun Festival Queen, snips the ribbon at the dedication ceremonies held at the Federal Aviation Agency's new Flight Service Station building at the Nome airport. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are (L) James...