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This 1952 Dehavilland DHC-2 Beaver Mk. 1 (c/n 538) is one of several operated by the Anchorage wing of the Civil Air Patrol, based at Lake Hood. N8964 was photographed on August 25, 2002.

Grumman G-44 Widgeon N45CA, seen in one of the parking areas at Lake Hood on August 25, 2002. Built in 1944, she is powered by a 295 hp Lycoming GO-480.

This 1954 Dehavilland DHC-3 Otter (c/n 44) has been repowered with a Pratt & Whitney PT6A turbine. Seating 11, N10704 was working charters for Alaska Air Taxi on August 25, 2002.

This beautiful airbrush work is on 1959 Cessna 180B N5189E. Lake Hood, August 25, 2002.

Piper Super Cub N202AK was rebuilt by CubCrafters of Yakima, Washington.

Seeing a floatplane in a museum hangar is like seeing a grizzly in a zoo cage. But to see an aircraft such as this 1934 Waco YKC, a museum is where you need to go. N14066 is at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum - click here to see the Waco's information page.

Commonly called a Beech 18, this Beechcraft C-18S was built in 1943 (c/n 7728) as a military UC-45F. These aircraft were used for search and rescue by the Army Air Forces. Now registered N1047B, it is seen here among the "project" aircraft at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum on August 25, 2002.

Grumman G-21A Goose was built for the U.S. Navy in 1943 (c/n B-102), and now resides at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum.

While operating with the 10th Rescue Squadron in 1947 at Elmendorf Air Force Base, this 1943 PBY 5A Catalina Canso made a forced landing at Dago Lake on the Alaska Peninsula. Abandoned there, it was sold and stripped, then finally recovered by the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum in 1984.

Rust Aviation's Dehavilland DH-3 Otter was built in 1961 (c/n 425) and has been repowered with a Pratt & Whitney turbine. Here N2899J makes a fast turn back into base on Lake Hood on August 25, 2002.

The envelope below was flown on the first Northwest Airlines flight
between Anchorage and Seattle, on September 1, 1946.
Until January 1952, Merrill Field was the main airport in Anchorage.