Official Wein Air Route Popular For Vacations

August 23, 2025Aug 23

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting historic Wein Air DC-3 flight from CHP Circle Hot Springs Airport located in Circle Hot Springs in the Yukon-Koyukuk area of Alaska to PAFA Fairbanks International Airport located three miles southwest of the central business district of Fairbanks

Circle Hot Springs was very famous for its hot spring resort with a 4-story lodge that gained statewide and international attention where rich people in Alaska usually went to that hotel for vacation

That is why Wein Air had regular service to CHP Circle Hot Springs airport as seen on this official airline timetable below that you can find my recreating of the historic flight

Ready to load up returning vacationers and their luggages

Closing the passenger door

Check out the reflection of clouds on the shiny wing

Starting engines!!

Spooling up engines because of sub zero temperature

Starting to taxi to runway 27

Still taxiing

Increasing throttle power to start take off run which results into snow blowing behind the engines

Airbone on climb to 10,000 ft while retracting landing gear

Still climbing still at runway or 270 degree heading because of too high mountains on left side

You can see how high the mountains are which means I cannot make left turn to head to west to start BNGAL HOVMO FA flight route

From this cockpit view, you can see that the runway heading is clear but the mountains on left side are still too high

Looks like the plane is at safe distance above mountains which signals time to make left turn toward destination

Making left turn to west

Still on left turn

Now on correct direction cruising at 10,000 ft

Wing view of cruising 10,000 ft above snowy landscape

Gorgeous wing view of sun

Because of regulations not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink below to view rest of the exciting flight. Here is the link: