The Alaska Aviation Heritage Museums' Grumman Goose plane made its way into the air after being worked on for the last six months.
Alaska aviation museum gets vintage plane back up in the airANCHORAGE, Alaska - Even though it was a cloudy morning at Lake Hood, it was still filled with spectators ready to watch the Grumman Goose , an amphibious airplane, make its way back into the air.
Grumman Gooses’ were first built in 1937 but stopped production in 1945. Many Gooses’ made their way to Alaska because they are well suited for the coastal conditions, flying over areas such as the southern coast, Southeast Alaska, Southwest Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. “This particular airplane was a Fish and Wildlife airplane, but yeah, they’re just kind of a part of day-to-day life in the state of Alaska for an awful long time. So it’s kind of a nice exhibit for the museum to have one,” Mees said.
Mechanics like Michael Fritcher have been working on the Goose for the last six months. They worked for months in a nearby hangar before it came to the airport for the final touches.Since it was still being operated by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game until about 2008, Fritcher said they still had “an opportunity to work with some of the people that had had their hands on this airplane back when the government ran it.
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