Flying in and out of sandbars comes easy for Alaska’s bush pilots. Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth is a former cultural resource historian for the National Park Service. She currently teaches U.S ...

The term “bush pilot” conjures up images of rugged individualists flying de Havilland Beaver floatplanes into Alaska’s most remote and difficult terrain. Such intrepid 20th-century aviators ...

Local pilot Terry Godes was flying in his own plane when he spotted the wreckage; the pilot and his daughters spent 12 hours on the wing before they were rescued. Photos courtesy Terry Godes / Alaska ...

When Kingsford moved to Alaska in 1975, he sought advice from old-timers who’d survived a lifetime of bush flying. (“The others weren’t available,” he says dryly.) His first stop was the ...

Russian warplanes were detected flying off the coast of Alaska and tracked by the U.S. military, the North American Aerospace ...

Petersen ar rived from Chicago and formed a flying service to compete with Wien ... but by alcohol. The Alaskan bush pilot had to be resourceful as well as rugged. N.C.A. Veteran Jim Dodson ...

The term “bush pilot” conjures up images of rugged individualists flying de Havilland Beaver floatplanes into Alaska’s most ...