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    Wien Air Alaska (IATA: WC) was a United States airline that was the result of a merger of Northern Consolidated Airlines (NCA) and Wien Alaska Airways...
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    Gambell Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight in Alaska to St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. On approach to Gambell...
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    -based air carriers Delta Air Lines, Mohawk Airlines, Northeast Airlines, Ozark Air Lines, Piedmont Airlines (1948–1989), and Wien Air Alaska. Fairchild...
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  • Cosgrave allied with Alaska Airlines to purchase competitor Wien Air Alaska. This ultimately failed and resulted in fines for Alaska Air and its leaders for...
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  • Noel Wien (June 8, 1899 – July 19, 1977) was an American pioneer aviator. He was the founder of Wien Alaska Airways. Wien was born in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin...
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    his younger brother Noel Wien, arrived in Alaska in 1924 and together founded Wien Air Alaska, the first airline in Alaska. He died when the Bellanca...
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  • Vienna located at the former river Wien Wien (river), in Vienna, Austria Wien Air Alaska, American airline 1927–1985 Wien International Scholarship, a scholarship...
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    San Pedro Bay  Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight in Alaska that crashed into Pedro Bay on December 2, 1968...
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  • based within the U.S. State of Alaska: Alaska Air Group Alaska Airlines is based in Seattle and owned by the Alaska Air Group out of Washington state,...
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  • MarkAir (IATA: BF, ICAO: MRK, call sign: MarkAir) was a regional airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, that became a national air carrier operating passenger...
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    Homer Airport (category Airports in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
    early 1980s Wien Air Alaska operated Boeing 737-200 jet service from the airport primarily nonstop to Anchorage (ANC). The June 15, 1979 Wien system timetable...
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    Deadhorse Airport (category Airports in North Slope Borough, Alaska)
    a control tower. The elevation of the airport is 67.4 ft (20.5m). Wien Air Alaska began serving the airport during the early 1970s with Boeing 737-200...
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    Juneau International Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Alaska)
    Airlines. Other air carriers which served Juneau over the years included Wien Air Alaska and MarkAir, which had both been based in Alaska. Western Airlines...
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  • Honduras (IATA code since 1985), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras Wien Air Alaska (IATA code until 1984), a defunct airline Weather Central, a provider...
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    hub for Horizon Air from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Horizon Air was acquired by the Alaska Air Group, the parent company of Alaska Airlines, in 1986...
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    offices of the Alaska Airlines Foundation. Prior to their respective dissolutions, airlines MarkAir, Reeve Aleutian Airways and Wien Air Alaska were also headquartered...
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  • Tailwind Air LLC was an American commuter scheduled air carrier and charter airline based in Westchester Airport and Sikorsky Memorial Airport. Its main...
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    Air Cargo Northeast Airlines (Fairchild Hiller FH-227 aircraft) Northern Consolidated Airlines (Fairchild F-27 aircraft. Acquired by Wien Air Alaska)...
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    Wien (1899–1977), pioneering aviator, founder of Wien Air Alaska, first to make a round trip between Alaska and Asia. Ferdinand von Wrangell (1797–1870),...
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  • Hawaiian carriers: Hawaiian and Aloha Two of the Alaskan carriers: Alaska and Wien Air Alaska During the 1938–1978 regulated era, intrastate airlines were those...
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    Kodiak Airport (category Airports in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska)
    air carriers included Western Airlines with Boeing 720B jetliner flights nonstop to Seattle as well as Alaska Airlines, MarkAir and Wien Air Alaska with...
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    and Wien Air Alaska with Boeing 737-200s and Fairchild F-27B turboprops. Wien was the launch customer for the combi version of the B737-200 while Wien predecessor...
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    ice reconnaissance aircraft landed at Gambell. On August 30, 1975, Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 crashed when trying to land in Gambell. 10 of the 32 passengers...
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  • McIntyre, catering to Alaska bush communities as a scheduled mail carrier for Wien Air Alaska, as well as providing charters throughout Alaska. In 1974, Frontier...
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  • by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas...
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  • Retrieved 26 February 2021. "History of Flight in BC". The Canadian Museum of Flight. Retrieved March 22, 2023. "Home". Wiggins Air. Retrieved 2024-10-08....
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  • Bering Air is an American airline headquartered in Nome, Alaska, United States. It operates domestic scheduled passenger and charter airline services,...
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  • First Air Flight 6560 was a domestic charter flight that crashed on landing at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, on 20 August 2011. Of the 15 people on board...
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  • Miami Air International was an American charter airline based in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It operated worldwide passenger charter flights...
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  • converted Super DC-8-71 and Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Universal Airlines ♠ Wien Air Alaska (contract cargo operations for UPS) World Airways Zantop International...
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