December 28, 2007
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum
Today Timber wanted to check out the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum which was, not surprisingly, near the airport. We went and spend a good couple of hours there checking out all the old restored Alaska bush planes and we spent a good amount of time talking to some guys that were working on restoring the very last Fairchild Pilgrim 100-A (N709Y) in the world. It was designed in 1929 but the one we saw was built in 1931. When you are working on the last one in the world you can't just order parts for it, so they have to be really good at woodworking, metalworking, and mechanics. The included picture is me with a 1943 Beechcraft UC45F (N104B). If you like small planes I definitely recommend checking out this museum.