Nice Inter-Alaska cargo HHauuling

August 16, 2025Aug 16

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a darn nice cargo hauling trip recreating historic real world Northern Air Cargo 737-200C flight from PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport located 5 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage to PAOM Nome Airport located two nautical miles west of the central business district of Nome

Cargo being loaded into the plane. Yep somebody in Nome got rich either from fishing catches or oil strike findings enough to buy Porchse!!

Cargo door closing after finishing the cargo loading

Doing pre-flight checklist including testing rudder and all flaps which you can see the tail rudder being tested

Making sure the cargo door is properly shut

Leaving cargo apron to taxi to taxiway K

Entering into taxiway K to make long taxiing to runway 07L

Still continuing on long taxi while some driver of oil refuel tanker is trying to beat the plane in race

Making last minute runway change to enter into runway 07R for take off after being informed by the PANC airport tower that runway 07R is closed temporarily due to some debris left on the runway by previous planes

Airborne now after take off on climb to FL300 making left turn toward west with ground view of Fish Creek river and Fish Creek Estuary below the plane nose

Leaving background view of PANC area to start the route ANC J111 MCG J111 OME while continuing its climb to FL300

Still climbing

Still climbing with background view of Mount Susitna. Not sure if the lake in front of the mountain is ice or polluted as it cannot be both due to August month and Alaska does not have polluted lakes

Close up SAME view of strange lake color

Approaching Kuskokwim River renowned for gold deposits clearly indicates that the plane is getting close to intercept MCG

Intercepting MCG and passing McGrath airport and heading to UNK

Intercepting UNK and passing Unalakleet Airport renowned as home base for famous Jim Tweto and his family

Approaching Unalaska Bay indicates time to descent from FL300 to 3,000 ft on way to runway 26

Passing through clouds at 7,000 ft

Passing through more clouds which can be fun as long as you have radar to detect other planes

More clouds to enter

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