Wings of Alaska

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Founded in 1982, Wings of Alaska connected Southeast Alaska by scheduled passenger service, charters, and freight flights. From its Juneau base, the small carrier linked communities including Haines, Skagway, Gustavus, Hoonah, and Excursion Inlet—the sort of routes where a timetable could feel more useful than a road map.

The airline became part of Portland-based SeaPort Airlines in 2008. During that ownership period, Wings operated within SeaPort’s wider organization and its headquarters shifted to Portland, Oregon. Yet the Wings name remained very much an Alaska-facing proposition: compact aircraft, rough-weather realism, and a job built around keeping coastal communities connected.

In October 2015, SeaPort sold the Wings of Alaska brand and selected Southeast Alaska ground assets to Gustavus-based Fjord Flying Service. The deal was intended to preserve local service, but the revived operation faced the familiar arithmetic of remote-airline life: limited demand, difficult conditions, and costs that do not care about your scenic views.

Wings of Alaska shut down in March 2017, leaving Alaska Seaplanes as the remaining commuter operator in several Northern Lynn Canal markets. Its disappearance closed a 35-year chapter of practical regional aviation—less jet-set glamour, more getting people, mail, and cargo where they had to go.

Our Wings of Alaska collection celebrates a stubborn little airline from the edge of the map: Juneau departures, mountain weather, Cessna grit, and the beautifully unreasonable idea that every far-flung stop deserved a connection.