FAA Establishes Soldotna CTAF Area

Tom George, AOPA Alaska Regional Manager The FAA is establishing a CTAF Area for the Kenai/Soldotna region, placing a large portion of the Kenai Peninsula on a single frequency – 122.5 MHz.  This follows more than a year of FAA-led meetings with stakeholders to work out the details concerning boundaries, individual airports, and the addition…

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“MR. P-38” AND HIS ONE-OF-A-KIND SKI PLANE

John Dahlen Well, here we are rounding the pylon out of the holidays, heading straight toward the GreatAlaskan Aviation Gathering, and still smack dab in the middle of the snowiest ski plane seasonever recorded in much of Alaska! While rummaging through some archives this winter, I found afirst-hand account of a unique ski plane, written…

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Alaskiters: American Kitefliers Association

Alaskiters, formed in the late 1980’s, has flown exhibitions at the Great Alaska AviationGathering since 2021 when we first appeared at the purple gate, and we look forward to beinga part of this unique Alaskan event for many years to come.We have appeared at many great events throughout Southcentral Alaska over the yearsincluding recently; the…

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Installation of New Met Towers at Little Mt. Susitna and Murphy Dome

Tom George, AOPA Alaska Regional Manager A renewable energy company is proposing development of wind farms near Alaska’s two largest cities.Alaska Renewables is a small company based in Fairbanks that is proposing the pair of projects toprovide sources of renewable energy that will feed the power grid serving the Railbelt area. Part of theinitial evaluation…

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Warren Miller and Ski Flying

Bernie Willis Many of us grew up watching the fantastic films by Warren Miller and his skilledskiers mastering or crashing the slopes across N. American and Europe. If youknow anything about good movies you know they are well planned. When I firstparticipated in the Iditarod in 1974 the group of mushers I was with ran…

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