Alaska FlightSeeing Tours / Alaska Bush Floatplane Service
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Float Plane Flying Talkeetna Alaska
This is a quick compilation of some of my flights when I was getting my Single Engine Sea Class rating up in Talkeetna, Alaska.
Alaska from Above: Floatplane over Anchorage and Chugach State Park
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We had the chance to take a short ride on a floatplane--another tick on the bucket list--and gained a little perspective (albeit as tourists) on Alaskan bush pilots, who rely upon their planes for survival, whether they're outfitted with wheels, snow skis, or floats. We saw Anchorage from above, gorged ourselves on the views of remote areas of the Chugach mountains, spotting moose and Dall sheep, and appreciated a bird's eye view of low tide and Fire Island and Cook Inlet.
Rust’s homepage, showing a great variety of flight tour options:
The particular flight shown in this video:
Maps and resources for Chugach State Park:
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“Aviation touches all aspects of life in Alaska, and is a basic mode of transportation because approximately 90% of Alaska is not served by roads. Alaska has six times as many pilots per capita and 16 times as many aircraft per capita when compared to the rest of the United States. In the state of Alaska, there are fewer than 12,000 miles of paved roads. Aviation is not only the state pastime; it is the state's major form of transportation.”
Alaska Chapter of the International Organization of Women Pilots
Seaplane Terminology:
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Music used, all from the YouTube library:
1. “West,” by a Silent Partner
2. “Blizzards,” by Riot
3. “Event Departure,” by a Silent Partner
4. “NirvanaVEVO,” by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
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Alaska float plane at Fairbanks
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Alaskan Float flying
The options are endless with a float plane in Alaska. Everything is a landing strip and the beauty is outstanding. Hop in for a ride
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Denali National Park in Talkeetna Alaska With
Alaska Bush Floatplane Service
Denali from a floatplane on a clear day
Flying out of Talkeetna, Alaska in 2011
Extraction from Lake Chakachamna Alaska
Pack raft assistance to DeHavilland Otter
Flying to The Top of North America- from NTA Talkeetna 2_2013
Being one of the tallest mountains in the world, Denali is inaccessible to all but the hardiest of climbers. But with a little help from a flight service, tourists can experience the scope, beauty, and sheer magnitude of this natural monument, and even land to walk in its shadow.
Alaska Bear Viewing Tours
ScenicBearViewing ( offers you incredible way to see wildlife and bear viewing in Lake Clack and Katmai national park.
Take a thrilling flight in a bush plane with a small group and an experienced naturalist guide/pilot to the best locations in the world for Alaska bear viewing and photography. After a 45 to 90 min flight-seeing tour from Homer, touch down on the beach of Katmai National Park or Lake Clark National Park and hike to a premium vantage point to observe bears in their natural habitat.
Call: 907-884-2655
Bush Pilot's View: Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
“How do you describe something as majestic as what we flew through? That’s the thing. I don’t really have the words for it.” Join Alaskan bush pilot*, Lynn Ellis in breathtaking Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve, the largest protected wilderness in America.
Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness protects over 9 million acres of steep mountains, winding rivers, glaciated valleys, and countless wildlife species. Lynn’s family homesteaded in the area before it became a national park. He has been flying in these mountains since he was 16 years old and has a unique and intimate connection with the land. He now brings his years of knowledge to the park service, providing access for the biologists and rangers that care for this special place.
“When you come down to luck, I mean, just look around. I mean, I can’t really argue with fate. I mean, how can I be upset. It’s impossible. No matter how bad things get.” —Lynn Ellis, NPS Alaskan Bush Pilot
Produced by Sarah Gulick
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*Note: The landing of aircraft in NPS wilderness, like the plane featured in this video, is unique to Alaska and is not typically allowed in other states that have NPS wilderness. For more information, read about the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Areas Act:
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Cessna 172 - N35608 (Lake hood, May 2013).
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I'm old and I'm bold; I'm also hairless and fearless, and I'm mean and ugly! Maybe all that constitutes a bush pilot.
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Alaska '35
In 1935, scientist and filmmaker William O. Field documented the work of newly arriving Matanuska Valley Colony farmers in Alaska. These farmers and their families had relocated from the Midwest of the United States to the Matanuska Valley/Palmer area of Alaska as part of a New Deal resettlement plan. The colony was settled by about 200 families seeking relief from the hardships of the Great Depression. Field's film contains scenes of early Alaska Railroad steam engines at work, farmers and their families at work and play, colonists building and moving into houses, and farm machinery ranging from horse drawn wagons to Caterpillar tractors and threshing machines. (B&W/Silent/35mm film).
In 2016, this film was preserved through funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). Reflex Technologies of Burbank, California, scanned the film and created digital DPX files, which were then output to new 35mm dupe negative and answer print films by Video & Film Solutions of Rockville, Maryland. The original safety print film, new dupe negative and answer print films, and digital files are all being preserved by the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-21002 from the William O. Field Papers collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Film Archives is supported by Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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