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- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 18 of 28
- (5:36 min.) (18 of 28)
  18. Virginia's students
  Virginia's students were varied -- a man who became a jet pilot, a prostitute, and a construction worker named Bullwinkle. She discusses some of her flights to Manly and other interior...
- UAF-H85-105-18
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 19 of 28
- (4:26 min.) (19 of 28)
  19. Women pilots
  Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.
- UAF-H85-105-19
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 22 of 28
- (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...
- UAF-H85-105-22
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 17 of 28
- (4:08 min.) (17 of 28)
  17. Virginia comes to Alaska
  Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
- UAF-H85-105-17
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Curtiss Jenny (JN4D), 1930-32.
- A dozen men gather around floatplane at dock
  Notes on verso: "Myself in cockpit, turning the plane around, getting ready for a flight, 3:30 A.M."; "This was morning of the first test flight of Jenny on float"; "Note Shell Simmons in front of...
- ASL-P356-0264
- Alaska State Library-Historical Collections
- Grumman Goose N95431, 1966.
- Color photograph of Grumman Goose against backdrop of blue sky, with snow-capped mountains below
  Note on verso: "First Alaska Coastal turbine Goose; before approval certification, in January 1967, for airline use"; "Experimental"; Ray Renshaw...
- ASL-P356-0300
- Alaska State Library-Historical Collections
- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 23 of 28
- (3:36 min.) (23 of 28)
  23. DC-3 aircraft
  George and Merrill Wien got a Stinson ready for instrument flight. George loaded up the family and flew to New York. He started training with the DC-3.
- UAF-H85-105-23
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Clayton, George and Virginia interview (06/05/1985) 24 of 28
- (6:47 min) (24 of 28)
  24. DC-3 training
  George met a Pan Am Clipper pilot who set him up for training at LaGuardia Airport. He was leasing a Pan Am DC-3 but the corporate heads cancelled the deal. Bill Conrad was the instructor George went...
- UAF-H85-105-24
- University of Alaska Fairbanks

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