100 years ago, pilot Roy Jones flew over Ketchikan's ballfields before landing in the Tongass Narrows, marking the start of commercial aviation in Alaska. Jones stayed in Ketchikan and opened Northbird Aviation Company, offering trips all around Southeast.
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And its pilot? Roy Jones, an Army Air Corps veteran who saw opportunity in Ketchikan, and, on July 17, 1922, landed in the Tongass Narrows with plans to start the state’s first commercial air service. Dawson said Jones arrived from Prince Rupert at exactly 2:02 p.m. He flew over the ballfields before making his landing in front of a crowd that had gathered on Ketchikan’s waterfront. The newspaper at the time ran a feature commemorating the event: “The weary aviators were given a tumultuous reception by the populace, jamming the dockfront’s rooftops with all the town sirens, church bells, horns and steam whistles playing a loud welcome home.
Dawson says the office was in the old Talbot Building on Ketchikan’s waterfront and noted that Jones went to college with then-resident Jack Talbot.“But they had lots of business right off the get-go for flying,” he said. “Joy riders, flight-seers, but also business people, the fishing industry and aerial timber survey and, and mining, geology, that sort of thing.
Dawson explained that Jones had been attempting to lift off from Heckman Lake near Loring and make the roughly 17-mile trip back to Ketchikan.
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