Ketchikan FSS Building

Ketchikan FSS (KTN), Alaska, date unknown
The FSS is located above the airline terminal building.

King Salmon FSS Employee Housing, 1950


Photo taken and submitted by Brian Fortier

King Salmon Housing (AKN), Alaska, 1950
Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) housing for FAA personnel stationed at King Salmon, Alaska.

King Salmon Skytel Hotel, 1950


Photo taken and submitted by Brian Fortier

King Salmon Airport (AKN), Alaska, 1950

Skytel, an unusual hotel located on the King Salmon Airport.  One end contained a restaurant run by a young man and his wife.  The remainder of the building contained a single room full of double-decker Army cots.  This was hotel accommodations for airline passengers booked for other destinations but detained by bad weather.

Kenai Group Award, 1969

Kenai FSS (ENA) group award, Alaska 1969
ATC specialists present to receive Certificates of Appreciation from the City of Kenai at a luncheon during “Federal Aviation Day” honoring Kenai FSS.

Employees (left to right): Roy Hoyt, FSS Chief John Hummel, Julian Spillers, Walter Hart, John King, Philip Chatiain, Kenneth Jordan, Gusse Myer, Marshal Munro, and Danny Girton.