Alaska air travel is necessary for the
most interesting, and unique wilderness adventures Alaska has to offer. Alaska bush planes
on wheels, floats or skis can provide you with a scenic tour...(hands down, the flightseeing experience of a lifetime).
Alaska bush pilots will fly you to some of the wildest, and most beautiful places on the planet to step foot on extremely remote
pristine beaches, high-mountain glaciers or wilderness river shorelines. The possibilities are almost limitless.
Scheduled Flights by Alaska air carriers can deliver you inexpensively, to the right place from which to launch an
incredible wilderness adventure. The Alaska wilderness provides for a huge range of interests, budgets,
and comfort levels.
In Alaska, far from any towns, villages, or other signs of civilization, you can fly to
luxury lodges that serve incomparable gourmet cuisine and provide elegant accommodations, in gorgeous wilderness
settings, with unbelievable fishing. On the other hand, bush planes can leave you on your own, at the headwaters of a wild river,
with a kayak or an inflatable raft, gear and provisions, for a float trip through spectacular untouched terrain, and pick
you up a few days later miles down stream
at the completion of your wilderness jaunt.
You can be dropped off from a float plane in the morning for a one day outing on the shores of a remote mountain lake,
river or salt water beach and be picked up at the end of the day. You can land on a mountain ridge,
river gravel bar or a remote salt water beach by a bush plane equipped with tundra tires for an extended hunt,
camping trip or a one day outing. Your Alaskan adventure can be guided or unguided. The options are endless.
Helicopters or ski planes can transport you to otherwise-inaccessible mountain cirques or glaciers,
for climbing, hiking, snowboarding and unique downhill skiing in trackless powder snow.
Airplanes can take you to nearby or extremely remote wilderness locations for hiking, beach combing, kayaking, river rafting,
fly-out fishing and hunting, wildlife and bird watching or photography. The possibilities for most budget limitations,
time constraints and outdoor interests are unlimited. Most Forest service, BLM and other inexpensive
rental cabins all over Alaska are
accessible only by airplanes.
Most of Alaska is accessible by air. Bush planes operate from the northern most
shorelines of the Alaskan arctic, to the southern most boundaries of the Alaska panhandle, west to the tip of
the Aleutian Chain and east into Canada. Several companies provide scheduled air service with
passenger and cargo flights in commuter types and larger aircraft to the
major cities and many of the towns and villages. Some operators haul materials and provisions
during the winter months, in large multi-engine aircraft to remote frozen lakes or ice strips not accessible by other means.
Alaska is huge. There are close to 400 FAA-certified
Alaska flight operations. Most single-engine operators fly within a few hundred
miles of home base. Some fly state wide. Some flight operations are specialized, others offer a broad range of options. Some
operate seasonally, from late spring, through the summer and into the fall hunting season. Others
fly year 'round.
You can even learn how to fly in Alaska from any of several Alaska flight schools specializing in Alaska flight instruction.
Regardless of what kind of an Alaskan adventure appeals to you, Alaskan bush planes and helicopters will put you into some of the most magnificent
and awesome territory that America has to offer.
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