Marine Airways    Fairchild 71    NC119H        (c/n  657)

                                       

                                           Marine Airways was founded in 1935.  This old Fairchild was an ex Pacific Alaska Airways
                                           machine and was one its first aircraft.  The airline merged with Alaska Air Transport on 27 May
                                           1939 to form Alaska Coastal Airlines.   This Fairchild was sold off to Reeve Airways at that time.
                                           The lower shot was taken by Alfred Opland at Juneau in the 1930s and is from the Lars Opland
                                           collection.