Talk:Unalakleet, Alaska

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Flying Wild Alaska
I suspect this city is going to be getting unexpected attention as result of to tonight's AWESOME debut of Flying Wild Alaska (1/14/11).

A better wikipedian than me probably needs to clean it up, but I hope I did a decent job of updating the basics -- Era now being the parent company of Hageland and me deferring on whether Era is based in Unalakleet as stated on the show or, as I suspect, actually being based in Anchorage.

Here's the wikipedia article on what it appears should now be titled "Era Alaska": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_Aviation

And here's Era's "about us": http://www.flyera.com/about

For anyone interested in the this subject, I strongly recommend you get all possible ducks in a row. Discovery's Deadliest Catch exploded people's interest in the Bering Sea, The History Channel's Ice Road Truckers exploded interest in the Dalton Road, and I suspect that Discovery's response to History with an aviation approach will do the same to the roadless interior. IvyGold (talk) 04:17, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh and here's Dicsovery's description of Era: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/flying-wild-alaska/about-show.html

Note this:"'Era Alaska was founded in the small city of Unalakleet with just one small plane and a service area of a few hundred miles. Today, the company has nearly 75 planes and destinations throughout the large state. Valued at millions, the airline handles everything from large, cross state commuter flights to tiny off-airport 'bush' flights. Despite his company's achievements, Jim refuses to relax for even an instant, because he knows that his community's well-being depends on him.'"Dramatic license or what? Amirite? IvyGold (talk) 04:35, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Uh yeah, you could say that. Anyway, Era (actually ERA) was founded by Carl Franklin Brady (1919–2005) as a helicopter company in the late 1940s and was sold about two decades later to a Texas-based firm doing work in Alaska during the Prudhoe Bay discovery.  I don't remember the specifics following that, but the name somehow endured as a brand, or was resurrected for an air taxi of some sorts.  It definitely was strictly or primarily a helicopter company when I was growing up.  Recently, the Era name prevailed out of an extensive series of mergers of small carriers and air taxis, mostly serving the northern and western flanks of Alaska.  You can figure why not, as Era's a pretty solid brand in Alaska.  Frontier Flying had that same cachet, but was more a Fairbanks thing and not necessarily as well-known statewide.  It's likely fact that a small air carrier was founded in Unalakleet with one plane, that Jim Tweto was associated with, which became a component of the current entity known as Ravn Alaska.  However, that's different than the way Discovery is portraying it in the quote you provided.  Our coverage of the whole lineage of that company is so screwed up to boot.
 * Here's what I want to know. I have a book source somewhere which mentions the Ryan family and their airline.  I take it from reading this source that Ferno Tweto is a Ryan?  If so, I can very well imagine why so little has been said about that.  This is tough flying country, but the uninitiated will pay little heed to that and only dwell on the fact that the Ryans are known for a succession of accidents during the 1980s and a subsequent name change for their company.  Curiously, that was the same charge leveled at Era when it became Ravn. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  00:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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