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North to Alaska!

Valene's 1962 Los Angeles Geographical Society tour to Alaska prepares to board a Pacific Northern Airlines Boeing 720 at Seattle-Tacoma. I'm near the top of the boarding stairs. Alaska066
Ketchikan, Alaska

June 18th 1962
Pacific Northern Airlines flew the group to from Seattle to Ketchikan, Alaska. In those days, Ketchikan did not have an airport. Instead, flights landed at the airfield an Annette Island. Ellis Airlines flew passengers for Ketchikan onward in Grumman Goose amphibians that landed in Ketchikan harbor. (A Pan Am flight landed at Annette shortly after ours. Ellis Airlines was there to accommodate all ... read more
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