Noorduyn Norseman Flight, Cooper Landing, Alaska: July, 2003

A July, 2003 flight from Cooper Landing, Alaska (located about 100 miles south of Anchorage) down to Seward and back to Cooper Landing. The flight takes us over mountains and glaciers in search of Alaskan Brown Bears.

[@PARABOLA1966]

Wow, I love this type of aircaft. I graduated from a part 147 A&P program in Roswell, NM and would have loved to have landed a job wrenching for an outfit like this one. All my school mates are wrenching on multi engine ac, except for me.

[@Juscz]

@SigNY340 , I am glad that you liked the video. I hope that there is a Norseman flight soon in your future. All best. Juscz

[@chiasson65]

I flew this plane in the mid nineties. It had a Canadian registration then . GUE.

[@Juscz]

Interesting and thanks for informing on that, @chiasson65. As far as I know it is still being flown by Ingram's in Cooper Landing, Alaska, about 1.5 hours south of Anchorage. www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/32123/n225bl-ingram-s-air-noorduyn-uc-64a-norseman/

[@Aurora_aviation316]

My dad used to fly with this plane all the time he worked for ingrams air

[@Juscz]

Cool! It's a great classic plane to have worked with.

[@nutriti55]

Nice views

[@rbrtrobb]

This was the same type of aircraft on which Major Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel en route to Paris from Bedford, England, on December 15, 1944. Since the Norseman with Major Miller aboard was not equipped with de-icing apparatus, it was forced to fly at a very low altitude in weather which grounded Allied bombing missions during the Battle of the Bulge. It is now currently believed that the Norseman may have gone down as Allied bombers returning from their aborted missions disposed of their ordnance over a restricted area of the Channel, through which Major Miller's aircraft might have passed undetected.

[@PeterNGloor]

Interesting video, the camera is a bit shaky though....