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Freezing nighttime temperatures have not stopped float flying in Southcentral Alaska, as activity at Lake Hood Seaplane Base continues to buzz like a beehive. As the leaves turn and fall on the ...
When Tim Coon started his new job as manager of the world's busiest seaplane base a month ago, he was prepared for the jaw-dropping view at Lake Hood, but that didn't leave him any less appreciative.
During a tranquil moment at Lake Hood, the world’s largest seaplane base, a Piper PA-14 skims a watery runway Adam Wright / FlightDeckImages Anchorage is a city of airports. Approaching it from ...
Today, the Lake Hood Seaplane Base is the busiest in the world, managing flights for Alaska's private pilots and regional flightseeing, fishing and bear-viewing companies. With more than 500 slips ...
Here's why you should visit Tavares, Florida. Known as "America’s Seaplane City," the lakefront town of Tavares — an hour’s drive northwest of Orlando in Central Florida — makes for a ...
Rude was flying from the lake to Anchorage’s Lake Hood Seaplane Base. Family members reported her overdue on the afternoon of her trip, and a family friend flew over the lake and spotted ...
Erie for the first time has a licensed seaplane base. It's not a building or an airstrip. Instead, it is an unmarked area in Presque Isle Bay and another in Lake Erie certified as meeting ...
OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- Tucked within the trees lining Lake Winnebago is the EAA AirVenture Seaplane Base. It’s just a short drive away from the main EAA grounds. “It’s a totally different vibe.
The body of a Fort Hood soldier was recovered from a lake near the Texas base weeks after another soldier drowned there — marking the fifth service member stationed at Fort Hood to be found dead ...
AUBURNDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — Dennis Jackson was working on his pool deck Friday afternoon when he heard a plane in distress. He looked up and saw a seaplane soaring over Lake Arietta. “I was ...