Don Sheldon pioneered high-altitude glacier landings on Denali that transformed mountaineering expeditions and made survival rescues possible where no pilot had gone before.
TaildraggerHarold Gillam flew Alaska's most brutal conditions for fifteen years before a January 1943 crash in the coastal mountains claimed the territory's most storied bush pilot.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon of Talkeetna, Alaska spent two decades flying climbers onto Denali's glaciers and built the historic Mountain House on the Ruth Glacier in 1966.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali for over two decades, building the techniques and standards that Alaska mountain aviation still relies on today.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon pioneered glacier landing techniques in the Alaska Range across three decades, and his methods remain the standard for high-mountain bush flying today.
TaildraggerHarold Gillam flew Alaska's deadliest routes in weather that grounded every other pilot - until a January 1943 crash in southeastern Alaska ended a legendary career.
TaildraggerHarold Gillam flew Alaska's worst weather for 14 years without losing a passenger - until a 1943 crash in the mountains above Ketchikan ended his legendary career.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon was the Talkeetna bush pilot who flew the Alaska Range for thirty years, pioneering glacier landing techniques that still define mountain flying today.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub on Denali's glaciers and flew more mountain rescues than any pilot in the state.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve turned a Valdez tidal mud flat into a runway, pioneered glacier landings, and invented Alaska bush flying.
TaildraggerBob Reeve pioneered glacier runway operations in 1930s Alaska, turning tidal mud flats and remote ice fields into reliable supply routes for Wrangell Mountain mines.
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