Ice Airport Alaska

A damaged plane plunges Anchorage Airport into an emergency. A leak on a Coast Guard helicopter jeopardizes emergency cover. Rain turns the Fairbanks runways into ice rinks, and a dog-sled racing prodigy flies with furry teammates.

A father and son team of bush aviators flies a NASA expedition into the wilderness. A rookie airline pilot attempts a landing on a remote island. A seaplane mechanic starts a helicopter repair business, and customs agents.

Valentine's day delays loom when a squadron of F22 makes an unexpected landing; high winds threaten a helicopter's 600lb sling load; Aviators come to the rescue of a village without water.

Customs agents intercept a grenade launcher smuggled into the U.S.; a blizzard threatens to cut off a remote island airport; warm winter weather turns a village runway to mud.

Bush aviators push the limit of their plane to deliver a two-ton generator. In Fairbanks, slippery runways threaten The Internation Ice Carving Championship and a high-tech airframe inspection on a Boeing 737 undercovers a poten.

The first fly-by-wire helicopter is put through its paces, as test pilots harness freezing temperatures. In Anchorage, a jet is lifted for repairs. In Talkeetna, pilots fight ice to deliver supplies to a homesteader's cabin in a.

Pilots put the world’s first fly-by-wire helicopter to the test in Fairbanks.

A heavy hauling helicopter flies across the frozen Bering Sea to a tiny island just 2.4 miles from Russia.

Pilots fly supplies to farmers as seismic activity around Mount Spurr heats up.

Climbers landing on a glacier follow in the footsteps of aviation pioneers