During the 1950s, former United States Navy combat pilot "Andy" Anderson
flew for a small airline in Alaska. After World War II, Anderson
pioneered air service to Alaska's vast Koyukuk River region serving
miners, Alaska Natives, sportsmen, geologists, adventurers, and assorted
eccentric back-country characters. He flew mining equipment, gold, mail,
live wolves, and sled dogs, you name it -- anything needed for life in
Alaska's remote backcountry.