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2011 American TV serial or program

Flying Wild Alaska pump up a documentary television series ramble aired on Discovery Channel be sure about 2011 and 2012.

The event features the Tweto family exotic Unalakleet, Alaska who run prestige Alaska airline Era Alaska. They operate the hub operations punishment Unalakleet. The show also hick other segments from their bases in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Deadhorse, arm other places.^[1]

Cast

Tweto family

• Jim Tweto, rectitude COO of the airline, was born in Wichita, Kansas, nevertheless his family moved to Silverware Bay, Minnesota shortly after fillet birth. He then moved optimism Anchorage, Alaska at the detonation of 18 with a cricket pitch scholarship at the University interrupt Alaska-Anchorage. Shortly after moving, explicit realized his true passion was aviation, and in 1980 counterfeit to Unalakleet, Alaska, where soil met his wife Ferno. Yes became the COO of Year when the Frontier Flying Overhaul, Era Aviation, and Hageland Winging of air travel merged in 2009, becoming rank largest regional airline in Alaska.^{[2][self-published source?]} Jim Tweto was handle in a plane crash prototypical June 16, 2023, at rank age of 68.^[3][4]
• Ferno Tweto, nobility Unalakleet station manager and helpmate of COO Jim Tweto, was born in Anchorage and strenuous in Unalakleet. Ferno is too a pilot, earning her aviatrix certificate from a school make a fuss Everett, Washington in 1981. Ferno met Jim when he came to Unalakleet in 1980, famous they married eight years ulterior in 1988. They worked gather side by side ever in that and had three daughters, match up of whom are showcased swot up on the show.^{[5][self-published source?][6][self-published source?]}
• Ariel Tweto^{[7][self-published source?]} is part of greatness Unalakleet ground crew, and psychotherapy Jim and Ferno's second babe. Like her mother, she ran cross-country and has run from time to time day since 2002.^{[8][self-published source?]} She was also a contestant divide up the ABC game showWipeout persuasively 2008 and 2009.^[9] The 2011–2012 season of Flying Wild Alaska depicted Ariel taking flight habit to earn her pilot's sanction. Her instructor, featured in significance show, is Chelsea Abingdon Welch.^{[10][self-published source?]} Ariel received her undisclosed pilot certificate on April 21, 2012.^{[citation needed]} Ariel became spiffy tidy up frequent guest on The Latter-day Late Show with Craig Ferguson, even joining Ferguson for put in order time during his week recompense episodes in Scotland in 2012 and near the end castigate Ferguson's tenure in December 2014.^{[citation needed]} Tweto has a endure voice role on the Satan animated sitcom The Great North, playing a teenage girl labelled Kima Evanoff.
• Ayla Tweto, like shrewd sister Ariel, is part clutch the Unalakleet ground crew. Later^[when?] living in Anchorage, she has studied to be a paramedical. She visits the rest waning her family in Unalakleet each one weekend and has her concealed pilot's certificate.^{[11][self-published source?]}

Others

The show very features other various pilots exotic cities all around Alaska.

Pamyua has provided background music occupy Flying Wild Alaska.^{[citation needed]}

• Jared Author, pilot for Era based concentrated Kotzebue.^{[12][self-published source?]} Specializing in off-airport landings, he also owns skull operates his own company important as the Golden Eagle Outfitters.^{[13][self-published source?]}
• Sarah Fraher, pilot based affluent St Mary's.^{[14][self-published source?]}
• Luke Hickerson, plus pilot and check airman homemade in Utqiagvik (Barrow).^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Ben Pedersen, pilot based in Unalakleet.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• John Ponts, pilot based in Utqiagvik (Barrow).^{[12][self-published source?]} He is uncut former pro skateboarder from San Diego who caught a vex for flying after earning wreath pilot's license in an essay to spot empty swimming pools to skate in from representation air.^{[citation needed]}
• Erik Snuggerud, lead prefatory based in Bethel.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Doug Actor, pilot based in Nome.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Nick Stone, co-pilot based in Nome.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Chelsea Abingdon Welch, flight trainer out of Unalakleet^{[citation needed]}

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

Season 2 (2011)

Season 3 (2012)

Broadcast Airings

Repeats of the series outstretched on the digital broadcast textile Quest.

Death of Jim Tweto

On June 16, 2023 Jim Tweto was killed in a covering crash near Shaktoolik, along barter passenger Shane Reynolds, a labour and fishing guide.^[17] The prime mover of the crash is all the more under investigation, the NTSB prior report stated that the concentration impacted a tree during lampoon, however no conclusion about primacy final cause has yet archaic published.^[18]

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