Handwritten note reads "Loading X-ray unit, Napaskiak [Napakiak] April 12, 1949." Men and boys near an airplane. One man stands near a sled loaded with various objects. On side of airplane reads Northern...
Airplane with Northern Consolidated Airlines, Inc. above windows, similar to one in UAF-1997-108-247. Two people stand near the plane's tail. On the plane's tail is NC95460. The nose of the plane is pointed in the...
Handwritten note reads "McGrath air-field." Airplane with doors open as if in preparation for loading. Above the windows of the plane is Northern Consolidated Airlines, Inc. A person crouches near an open door. ...
58 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Stevens Collection, 1968-1975". Film shows Wien Consolidated Shorts Skyvan landing on Nunivak Island. Aircraft N-Number: N4916.
35 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Phillips Collection". Film shows planes at Northern Consolidated Airlines at Weeks Field in Fairbanks, including a person running, and a mechanic working on a plane. From catalog...
132 second film clip, color/silent. Title frame shows "Machetanz Collection 1952-1958". Film shows cargo being unloaded from trucks into a F-27 Propjet airplane, passengers boarding the plane, and the plane taking off. Under the pilot's...
Title from verso. Photograph of men carrying fence stakes for barb wire defenses. Verso reads: "U.S. soldiers who have just landed on the Aleutian Island 63 miles from Kiska, tote a mess of [unreadable] stakes for barbed wire...
Title from verso. Photograph of bomb damage from an air raid on Kiska Island. Verso reads: "Aleutian Islands -- Pillars of smoke rise from Japanese barracks and military installations on the Island of Kiska, as bombs from U.S. Army...
(4:36 min.) (19 of 20) G. W. Skinner/ tourism--Oregon (ship)--Alaska Consolidated Canneries--Cannery ship--Yes Bay--Bob Rose--Paid commissions to railroad companies as well as travel agents--Kenny Cross--H. N. Peterson
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...
92 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "KTVF Collection, 1970-1976". Film shows airplane scooping up water from Vundik Lake, and then dropping it on a forest fire.
(5:01 min.) (22 of 28) 22. Flying in western Alaska
George still needed his multi-engine rating, couldn't borrow the company plane. So he quit Pan Am and started flying along the Kuskokwim for Northern Consolidated. Towns in the western...
Title from verso. Photograph of a man walking in front of the Bethel Roadhouse in Bethel. Verso reads: "June 1951. Bethel Roadhouse - operated by Northern Consolidated Airlines."
Further information was supplied by Paul Gregory...
Titel taken from sign on image. From verso: "L - R: Rita McKay; Dave Bruce travel writers [with] Kay J. Kennedy (R) at Fairbanks airbanks? 19??. 100% P & G sunliner. Wien Consolidated Airlines, photo by Skip Wall Fairbanks, Alaska."
Title taken from sign on image. From verso: "Wien Consolidated Airlines photo by Skip Wall Fairbanks, Alaska". A man and a woman are standing in front of the airport terminal. The two are identified as Dave Bruce and Rita McKay on a similar...
Title from verso. A snapshot of a man, presumably an employee of Wien Airlines, in sunglasses with a broad smile. He is dressed in a uniform (probably a mechanic's); the initials WCA (Wien Consolidated Airlines) are visible on the front of the...
Title by cataloger. "Wien Consolidated Airlines Photo by Ray." An elderly man in (mechanic's) uniform, who may be an employee of Wien Airlines, is sitting on a car with an open hood. He is sitting on the front fender, seemingly working on the...