Tagged: Southcentral Alaska aviation history

The Merrill Field control tower as it looked in the 1970s. This tower was replaced in 1999. Its “cab” is now located at the Alaska Aviation Museum at Lake Hood, and is open to the public

Merrill Field serves Anchorage aviators for over 90 years

In 1915 the southern edge of Anchorage was Ninth Avenue – with only undeveloped land beyond. In about 1917, vegetation was trimmed back along a one-block wide by 16-block long strip of land south...