Noel Wien’s son, Richard Wien, followed the elected officials with remarks of his own, mentioning, among other memories, that his father’s time in a flying circus prior to 1924 fostered ...

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for Interior Alaska, forecasting windy, hot and dry conditions in ...

Want to help install a new community vegetable garden just outside Noel Wien Library? The garden will be built starting at 9 a.m. July 7, and volunteers are invited to ...

This is Noel Wien's Cessna 140. A statue of Wien will be placed just below the airplane at a special ceremony on Tuesday, July 2, in front of the new Wing World.

Evacuation levels remained unchanged around fires near Fairbanks and Healy, but officials reported better conditions as of ...

Noel "Merrill" Wien is one of 13 men and women selected to represent the next class of Alaska Aviation Legends, an annual project that recognizes the pioneers who made Alaska's aviation industry ...

Wien was founded by famous Alaskan aviator Noel Wien, known as "the father of Alaska bush flying." His efforts earned him a place in the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Noel Wien with aircraft in ...

A fter more than three decades of seat-of-the-pants competition, two of Alaska’s pioneer bush airlines have joined forces and moved toward the jet age. Wien Alaska and Northern Consolidated ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska -- (November 11, 2011) Families from the Fairbanks community were treated to a performance by the U.S. Army Alaska's 9th Army Band, and a reading of the book, ...

Noel Wien (Anchorage Museum, Wien Collection) Probably the best known of Alaska’s first bush pilots, Noel Wien had something most of the others didn’t: a long life.

Noel Wien Collection. Jim Rearden, a World War II veteran, private pilot, former magazine editor, and resident of Alaska, has written nearly 30 books.