Pacific Northern Airlines
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1945 - 1967
Historical Note
Pacific Northen Airlines was a regional airline based in Alaska from 1947 to 1967. It ceased operations when it merged into Western Airlines.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-06-05
Contents of the Collection
The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 3, N-S)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-3
Abstract
The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.
Dates:
circa 1910s-2010s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Thomas B. Davis Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1997-04-18
Content Description
The Thomas B. Davis Collection documents Davis’s career with the U.S. Navy and Pacific Northern Airlines with textual and visual materials primarily from 1940s-1960s. A small amount of materials, including log books and photographs, document Davis’s service during World War II. The bulk of the collection relates to Davis’s career as a commercial airline pilot with Pacific Northern Airlines, including certificates, manuals, and training materials. Another man, Frank L....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940s to 1980s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines textual materials
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-02-20
Contents of the Collection
The Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) textual materials is a small collection of assorted newspaper clippings about PNA, circa 1959 and a photocopy of a merger decision for Western-Pacific Northern by the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1967. Many of the clippings are from unidentified newspapers, although some include identifying information. The materials are bound in a booklet with a front label, "Western-Pacific Northern Merger - Art Quinn." It is unknown who collected the...
Dates:
1959-1967
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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