Arctic Flight: a Century of Alaska Aviation

The Anchorage Museum has an exhibit celebrating 100 years Arctic aviation that will run until August 2013. (KTUU-TV / February 9, 2013)

By KTUU News Staff KTUU

7:24 p.m. AKST, February 9, 2013
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—

Alaska's rich aviation history comes to life in a new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum.

"Arctic Flight: a Century of Alaska Aviation" celebrates that history that has allowed Alaskans to live as they do today.

It's the 100th anniversary of the powered flight in the state, and at the exhibit has about 80 artifacts.

Some of the artifacts were loaned out by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

“Our central aircraft artifact, the Steerman, was flown by many of the famous bush pilots of the '20s and '30s,” Dr. Jeremy Kinney with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum said. “It's an exciting airplane artifact from that time period, but you also see a lot of personal mementos, personal objects of famous aviators that not only - if they're from Alaska or not.”

The exhibit opened Saturday to the public and will until August, 2013.