1. Name three airlines that operated jet service into Annette Island (ANN) in Alaska prior to 1969. Also identify the equipment operated by each air carrier which was a different aircraft type in each case.
I believe that it is Pacific Northern with 720s, Western, with 720Bs, and Pan Am, with 707s. Pan Am had given up by 1969, they progressively pulled back from their longstanding (since WW2) Alaska service. Pacific Northern merged into Western in 1967, so both carriers had served the airport prior to 1969.
The airport served the city of Ketchikan, some distance away, with a shuttle between the two by floatplane, I presume a Grumman Goose at the time. I wonder how they did it in winter, unless it doesn't freeze. Timetables were always very precise that the airport was separated from the city like this.
While referring to Pacific Northern, I wonder if anyone ever noticed the similarity between the PNA livery for their Boeings
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=1353852
and that of their neighbours over the border, Wardair, who were starting to build up their Boeing fleet just at the time that PNA disappeared into Western.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...FYaz2wodcCQAvg